(May 28, 2014 at 3:53 pm)Heywood Wrote: You are quoting me out of context. If you quoted the entire post instead of cherry picked portions, you will see I was making a point that future results do not dictate the morality of the act.
Not an honest tactic.....I'm a little surprised Cato....your better than this.
I went back and read the entire post. You are quite right. My apologies on this count. Here was Heywood's entire post for everyone's quick reference...
Quote:Suppose Hitler killed all the Jews and doing so, stopped a chain of events in which a future Jew destroys the world. Does the fact that in the end we might be better off that Hitler killed all the jews make his actions moral?
What if a fetus that was aborted would have grown up, invented a practical fusion process and saved mankind from a runaway greenhouse effect? Does that make abortion immoral?
The morality of an act isn't determined by future results. There is no need for me to make an argument that we would be better off if abortion were illegal.
Abortion is the killing of a human being by another human being. I think I am safe by saying such things are immoral.
