Tavarish Wrote:I actually clarified that later on.
If I think hate speech is morally wrong, but condone and support free speech, am I condoning hate speech?
It doesn't logically follow that you necessarily condone a product (abortion) when you support its cause (the right of a woman to do what she wants with her body).
I'm using "condone" with the understanding that it is "accept and allow things that you consider 'wrong' to continue". By that definition, it is necessarily condoning.
Quote:A Bill of rights specifies what a person is free to do, not what is necessarily right. You make the choices guided by society and personal perception. There are many relatively immoral and frowned upon acts that you can do that aren't illegal and protected under the Bill of Rights. My point here was criminalization (prohibition) of such a thing is more of an issue than the morality of it.
Well of course ^_^ I was used 'right' to mean 'lawful'... how embarrassing
Quote:I'd say a haircut is cutting it a little thin, but the pro-lifers don't see it that way in the least. They believe it is a human being being murdered in cold blood.
I don't thin it's cutting it thin at all... if I let the parasite grow for almost a year, it will be a hungrier, noisier, uglier, messier parasite. Then after a good number of years, it might begin to be less parasitic, until it possibly becomes a thing off of which a parasite might feed. If I let my hair grow for almost a year, it might be able to bend into a different hairdo than the one I wear currently... and will also probably be prettier. A few minute long haircut can ruin all of those years of wonderful growing in a few snips! If anything... it is the haircut that should be considered worse than abortion... not the other way around
Quote:Women will proceed to get abortions - that won't change. Criminalizing it doesn't help. Pro-lifers don't seem to understand that.
I don't disagree... if criminalizing things stopped 'crimes': whence crimes?
*Saerules nibbles on the cookie, thanking Tavarish*
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Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
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