RE: Abortion is love
September 14, 2015 at 1:03 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2015 at 1:03 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(September 14, 2015 at 12:54 pm)Losty Wrote:(September 14, 2015 at 12:42 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: When an instigator is attacking you (or someone else), you have the right to exert as much force as is necessary to stop them. If that amount of force results in their death, it's still tragic because it's still the loss of a life. But it's not immoral because it's self defense. This does not mean all human life isn't equal.
If you could kill someone in self defense, then you cannot value their life as much as you value your own.
Not at all. Just because I am defending myself from someone who is trying to kill me, doesn't mean my life is worth more. It just means it's justice.
Let's say someone I love very much is trying to kill someone whom I've never met before. The police show up and try refrain him, but can't. They have to act quickly before the perpetrator kills his victim, and the only thing they can do at this point is shoot him. The bullet hits him somewhere on the torso, and he falls to the ground, bleeding. The ambulance shows up and tries to save him (because his life still has worth), but he ends up dying in a few hours.
Obviously, I cared more about my loved one than I did about the person he was trying to kill. But does that mean it would have been right to let him kill his victim, since I cared about him more than I cared about the victim? No. Why? Because every life is equal, and so in every case, if one person is unjustifiably trying to kill someone else, that person has the right to be defended. Regardless of whether I care more about the victim, or about the attacker.
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