The political side that is the "correct" side.

[Rev. Rye]

I can't answer the question because most politics don't have much to do with morals if you want to be logical.

Exactly the basic problem with the assumptions behind this thread. Case in point, CL mentioned abortion as something she agrees with the right on. Make no mistake, it’s a dirty business and there’s a reason people don’t like it. Unfortunately, the biggest thing (besides the question of bodily autonomy) that makes the “pro-life” position untenable is that making abortion illegal will not make things better. In fact, it will likely end up with many women dying to get rid of that fetus. How do I know this? Because when abortion was illegal, women DID die trying to get rid of it. Don’t take my word for it: take this doctor’s. He was there when it was common for women to come into his office asking him to remove foreign objects from their vaginas that had become lodged in there (including the famous wire hanger, and in some cases, soda bottles, some of which had broken off inside them.) In one case, Gerri Santoro died after performing an abortion on herself and hemorrhaging. The photo of her bloody body became a famous image of the sort of thing pro-choicers want to avoid, and given that legal abortions have a mortality rate 10 times lower than that of childbirth (which is still pretty negligible), like it or not, it works.

And it’s the same thing with the drug legalization debates. Nobody (except maybe some cranks) is saying marijuana is perfectly safe, especially not the ones with the power to legalize it. But in the 81 years since the Anslinger Act made marijuana possession a crime, it’s become blindingly obvious that the effects of making it illegal are far worse than they would be if it was just illegal, from filling our prisons at a higher rate than ANY other nation with the possible exception of the Nazis just so we can get tough on the minor offenders who keep getting arrested, all the way up to the cartels who stay in power because we can’t get our collective fixes legally.

And just to further the point, here's this scene from 28 Days Later:





Make no mistake, infecting a monkey with a deadly virus is not a terribly moral thing to do. But would setting them free be the best thing? Well, this video doesn't show the devastation that occurs, rendering England sparsely depopulated as a direct result of the rage virus being unleashed by the world by these people who thought they were doing the right thing. And before you assume Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, and I are overreacting somehow, bear in mind that even in less dire situations, this type of behaviour can lead to catastrophic problems down the line.