RE: Determinism.....
November 5, 2009 at 10:09 pm
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2009 at 10:13 pm by Violet.)
Quote:If so, what would you say about a Christian killing an abortion doctor based on absolute knowlegde that if the doctor is killed, some woman who was going to get an abortion didn't and the baby that would be born would save a million people from being killed by some tyrant? In your view would the Christian be justified? Does that make my previous hypothetical better for you?Yes, the Christian would be justified if that were the case. And yes, I agree with Adrian completely in that case.
Quote:Are you suggesting that a baby is not alive until it has been born?/concur with what the TBF just said. It may as well be a rock with a heart, so far as I am concerned (Unless I have made up my mind to have the baby... in which case I have placed worth upon it). I believe I've made my stance on this issue quite clear before? That baby is a hypothetical person... until it reaches the state of development that one could declare it having reached personhood. Until then: it holds no higher place in my mind than does a computer. Im not going to discuss this... because some people here take this far too personally (as is evidenced by the last time I discussed this with someone here). My own personal values place this personhood upon the baby's birth... the baby isn't alive to me until it has taken its first breath.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
