RE: To abort or not to abort
March 27, 2014 at 7:29 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2014 at 7:32 am by Mudhammam.)
(March 27, 2014 at 7:24 am)Heywood Wrote:(March 27, 2014 at 7:08 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Fine but that doesn't answer my question. There's nothing consistent as far as I can see in the position that "a future expectation of personhood" be regarded more sacred than the present sentience of a pig or a cow.
If a lion kills and eats me, I don't think the lion is being evil. It is a predator and I am prey. I don't think I am evil when I eat cows or pigs because I am predator and they are prey. These types of actions are artifacts of ecology. Abortion is a deliberate conscious decision to prevent the existence of a person for motivations of convenience.
But I could easily make the argument that our ecology is such that your only reasons for eating pigs or cows stem from motivations of convenience.
