RE: A question regarding proof
September 9, 2011 at 8:14 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2011 at 8:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Do I have to ask a human being if she has aids, or can I just run a test? Your argument seems to hinge upon assuming that because we can't currently figure everything about human beings out by objective means, that we never will be able to, I assume no such thing. How could I? I dont assume that human beings arent machines for example, especially in light of all of the evidence that easily describes us as such. A machine different from a combustion engine, sure, but a machine nonetheless. Why is the why and how of a combustion engine the same thing, but the why and how of a human being different? What evidence do you have to support such a conclusion?
As far as how I deal with abortion or euthenasia Crux...I don't. These aren't things I support, but I can't go so far as to take a life lightly to prevent them from happening, and that's what I would have to do, isn't it, at the end of the day (mind you I am a human being and I can't promise that there isn't a situation where I wouldn't violate my own sense of right and wrong and take a life without sufficient cause...hope I wouldn't, but there's no telling is there?). If I helped to make them illegal, people would still seek these things out, causing even greater harm to the life which I feel to be so sacred ( and thats avoiding the issue of whether or not I can make decisions for other human beings). I don't have any easy answers, I don't get to refer to a holy text, know what I mean? I tend to go with whatever I imagine will do the least amount of harm.
Any issue regarding life is bound to be a sticky one, I'm just as likely as any other human being to act irrationally, and just because something is sacred to me doesn't mean that it is right. If life came with a manual this would all be easier wouldn't it? I don't believe that it does. We do the best we can with what we have.
As far as how I deal with abortion or euthenasia Crux...I don't. These aren't things I support, but I can't go so far as to take a life lightly to prevent them from happening, and that's what I would have to do, isn't it, at the end of the day (mind you I am a human being and I can't promise that there isn't a situation where I wouldn't violate my own sense of right and wrong and take a life without sufficient cause...hope I wouldn't, but there's no telling is there?). If I helped to make them illegal, people would still seek these things out, causing even greater harm to the life which I feel to be so sacred ( and thats avoiding the issue of whether or not I can make decisions for other human beings). I don't have any easy answers, I don't get to refer to a holy text, know what I mean? I tend to go with whatever I imagine will do the least amount of harm.
Any issue regarding life is bound to be a sticky one, I'm just as likely as any other human being to act irrationally, and just because something is sacred to me doesn't mean that it is right. If life came with a manual this would all be easier wouldn't it? I don't believe that it does. We do the best we can with what we have.
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