RE: Abortion is love
September 16, 2015 at 2:20 am
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2015 at 2:36 am by robvalue.)
I realized something. Even if babies get a lesser experience in heaven, there's still a lot of be said for killing them. They are guaranteed to go to heaven (according to most people) which has to be pretty good, even in the "lite" version. However, as soon as you don't kill them and they start thinking about stuff, they may choose the wrong religion. Even if we pretend there is only Christianity and Islam, that gives them a 50% chance of no heaven at all. Include every other possible religion and were down to 0%. But let's be charitable and say 10%. Heaven lite 100% seems like a safe bet against 10% better heaven 90% no heaven with optional torture.
No, you're not. You tried to pull a tu quoque by saying "we bully animals so it's ok for God to bully us". I don't know how you'd feel about god if he started reaching down and eating members of your family though.
When you found out that tu quoque didn't work on me, you tried to chase me round the houses to try and find some other way to make me look like a hypocrite, in order to complete your originally flawed to quoque. Prison system? What's next? We're totally off topic even for the off topic point. I could answer about prison, but then it would be some other random thing. It seems very important to show its OK for God to do what he wants to us. Of course, if there is a god, he can do what he wants. We would be powerless to stop him victimising weaker beings.
I admit there is some validity to your argument when it's presented to someone who thinks what we do to animals is OK. I hadn't considered that connection before, so points for that! I use the argument about a more intelligent and powerful species than us coming down and enslaving us for meat. Would we say "fair enough"? Doubtful. Arguments about self awareness are a rationalization, that is a totally arbitrary distinction when deciding who gets to do what to what.
Trying to compare raising animals for meat to abortion decisions is ludicrous. So I'll not be continuing the discussion. You already gave me the "reasonable doubt" answer the to the OP, which I would like to credit you for. So let's leave it at that.
(September 15, 2015 at 2:05 pm)alpha male Wrote: I'm logically extending your positions and showing that they lead to conclusions you're not comfortable with.
No, you're not. You tried to pull a tu quoque by saying "we bully animals so it's ok for God to bully us". I don't know how you'd feel about god if he started reaching down and eating members of your family though.
When you found out that tu quoque didn't work on me, you tried to chase me round the houses to try and find some other way to make me look like a hypocrite, in order to complete your originally flawed to quoque. Prison system? What's next? We're totally off topic even for the off topic point. I could answer about prison, but then it would be some other random thing. It seems very important to show its OK for God to do what he wants to us. Of course, if there is a god, he can do what he wants. We would be powerless to stop him victimising weaker beings.
I admit there is some validity to your argument when it's presented to someone who thinks what we do to animals is OK. I hadn't considered that connection before, so points for that! I use the argument about a more intelligent and powerful species than us coming down and enslaving us for meat. Would we say "fair enough"? Doubtful. Arguments about self awareness are a rationalization, that is a totally arbitrary distinction when deciding who gets to do what to what.
Trying to compare raising animals for meat to abortion decisions is ludicrous. So I'll not be continuing the discussion. You already gave me the "reasonable doubt" answer the to the OP, which I would like to credit you for. So let's leave it at that.
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