(May 7, 2021 at 7:08 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: What if I told you that Neo doesn't have a commitment to forced birth? What if I told you that Neo has a commitment to the welfare an unborn child?
It just so happens that the institution that convinced Neo of the worth of the unborn child was really just committed to making forced birth endemic.
Sad story.
I don't think that we'd ever run out of examples where motivated propagandizers exploit a shared moral assumption for some other unrelated or marginally related end. In the case of abortion, the aim is political might - not the welfare of children, but since it would be hard to find a person who doesn't understand and agree with our responsibilities to children in general - it plays. That, ultimately, is the answer to how american christendom became consumed by abortion while simultaneously resistant to environmentalism. Environmentalism is an opposition viewpoint. It doesn't matter that the arguments could be the same in either case - because the argument isn't over moral postulates.
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