RE: Atheism and Ethics
July 8, 2024 at 2:29 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2024 at 2:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 8, 2024 at 1:57 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I don't agree with your theory of rights. Pro-lifers grant fetuses the right to live. Noone expects the fetus to burst forth from the mother's belly to defend its right like an alien chestburster.
You don't have to - I'm just telling you what I'm saying, rightly or wrongly.
Forced birthers, otoh, are making an explicitly moral claim about their gods wishes when they assert such a right. It doesn't matter to them whether the fetus would fight for it's rights and they absolutely don't care that other people would fight for reproductive rights. Or, if we prefer....insomuch as they do... it's seen as a boon because they're accelerationists.
I would feel the same murdery way about the state trying to abort one of our kids or sterilize me or my wife as I would about a state forcing us to breed like livestock. As it so happens..I think abortion is immoral - but should not be illegal. Yet another way...from my pov...that legality and morality are not interchangeable and my moral sense is not perceived..even by me... to be the best course of action in the context of the social construct.
There are alot of observations like these. They're not novel. Realpolitik is an entire theory of government and policy based on eschewing ideals in favor of circumstances and outcomes.
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