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Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
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RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
(March 8, 2013 at 9:42 pm)catfish Wrote: If you don't see it now, you may never see it. I will try to illustrate it to make my perception clearer to you.

1. You support a woman's right to choose (her body and all that), for any reason if you really want to support her right to choose. She can choose to abort because she doesn't want stretchmarks, wants to keep partying, wants to goto college, whatever... Right?

2. You think it's immoral for her to choose which sex child she wants.

You have no problem with killing a human lifeform (I consider it human at fertilization), but you do have a problem with her choice that you think promotes sexism...
Do I understand your position correctly?

Do you seriously not understand how a person can hold a position and still not like everything that position entails? I believe I've used this example before, but it's like how I'm an ardent supporter of free speech while simultaneously disliking that it means the westboro baptist church can... do their whole thing. There's nothing contradictory about that.

And yeah, it's immoral to abort based on gender, because that implies that there's a preferred gender to be had and enforces misogyny. However, I'm adult enough to recognize that this is a position that I hold and not one that should be forced upon women everywhere. I understand that my beliefs are not the be all and end all of human experience, and that living in a free country means that others are allowed to hold to beliefs different to mine and that I have no right to enforce my beliefs over others.
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Messages In This Thread
RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by Esquilax - March 8, 2013 at 10:10 pm
Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by Tiberius - March 10, 2013 at 10:36 am
RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by Joel - March 15, 2013 at 9:25 am
RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by Joel - March 16, 2013 at 11:47 am
RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by smax - March 18, 2013 at 4:29 am
RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by Joel - March 18, 2013 at 10:51 am

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