RE: My (probably unpopular) opinion on arab refugees
December 6, 2016 at 11:03 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2016 at 11:07 pm by henryp.)
(December 6, 2016 at 10:34 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:Quote:2) When the tangent started, the tangent wasn't about what we should do. The tangent was about how I described what people do. I said the reason arguments about refugees never go anywhere, is because people disagree on human life being valuable. If you don't believe human life is valuable, then you can just kill the people in Aleppo, and that's fine.
Human life has inherent value. It is valuable regardless of anyone's opinion on it. And taking away innocent human life is an objectively immoral thing to do. It isn't "just fine" so long as the person who does the killing doesn't care.
That's why I post on an Atheist forum, and not a Catholic forum. You can 100% apply your moral objections to others, because you've got God putting his stamp on it, which gives it authority over everyone, whether they believe it or not.
The complication is that I disagree on God existing.
But it can still be hard to be consistent. Like abortion. You think life begins at conception, I assume, and people are murdering babies in the womb? Other people think it's just a 'fetus' and isn't human yet. So can they have an abortion or not?
It's a very similar situation. Do you find abortion to be objectively immoral, and think they should be outlawed regardless of what others believe? Or do you accept the differing opinions, and it's okay for them to get an abortion?
(December 6, 2016 at 11:02 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(December 6, 2016 at 10:47 pm)wallym Wrote: Yes, I can feel sorry for a very few people. But kid's in Africa are not among those people. I don't bare them any ill will, I'm just indifferent. I can't care about them anymore than you could not care about them, I imagine.
Who do you feel sorry for.
Wife and daughter. Not much beyond that.
