(July 24, 2011 at 10:30 pm)Hurny Wrote: That's my dilemma, it seems that objective truth is inescapable, we can't deny it without contradicting ourselves. Also I can't find a way to avoid objective morality when it comes to the situation of abortion as he has argued it, it seems "objectively wrong" to say it is ok to kill an innocent person.
Fetuses aren't people. People don't depend on the living organs of another being for life support. I don't care when the heart starts beating. The heart has fuck all to do with consciousness other than delivering oxygen & nutrients to the brain. I can make heart tissue beat in a petri dish with a small electrical shock, but that doesn't mean it's a person either.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal