(October 6, 2010 at 12:35 pm)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: I wasn't quite sure where to put this, but I thought, as this is something that's been fairly big in the British news recently, it's something worth discussing. Basically, the agony aunt Virginia Ironside said that abortion can sometimes be a moral act and that a good mother would kill a suffering child.
Here's a link to a (blatantly biased) Christian article:
http://www.christian.org.uk/news/agony-a...-children/
Personally, I think she's absolutely right. There's no such thing as the sanctity of human life. We should surely judge the value of a life by the amount of pleasure/pain in it.
Thoughts?
We give more dignity to our pets than we do to our old.
Many suffer torments because we cant 'put them out of their misery' like we do to dogs.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
