RE: Abortion: 10 years as an atheist and I still don't get it
February 26, 2020 at 9:05 am
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2020 at 9:06 am by R00tKiT.)
(February 25, 2020 at 12:22 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: It's not about defending abortion, nobody likes it, and it is a last mean for a person to handle that problem and usually for a person to save her life.Saving the mother's life is a different issue. You're still prepared to back up all other kinds of abortion.
(February 25, 2020 at 12:22 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: That's why atheists are trying to solve that problem by letting gays adopt kids, by educating people in sex, by making contraception more available, and so on, most of which you and those like you object and just want to force women into doing what you think is your God ordering you to do.
I don't get why "letting gays adopt kids" is the first solution that pops into your mind. All religions unanimously condemn homosexuality altogether, and as a result, we don't solve a problem by creating another one.
Aside from that, it's not like we're advocating for prosecuting women who perform abortion, we're simply against legalizing it.
(February 25, 2020 at 5:22 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Sure it can. I don't believe in gods, I know that there are different kinds of life. Why did you think this would be difficult?
It's difficult because you can't make one kind of life more valuable than another, all life is made up with the same stuff, following essentially the same biological processes etc. and as such all lives are on an equal footing, and deserve equal chances of survival, unless religion kicks in.
(February 25, 2020 at 5:22 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Now we're on to materialism. It's important to point out that atheists don't have to be materialists, but it's no more difficult for a materialist to offer a set of value judgements than it is for you to do the same. None of these things you're asking about are problems. Who told you they were? Why would they be?
The value judgments you're about to offer can't be justified. Supposing god automatically makes the human life more privileged. Other than that we're just a pack of matter.