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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that.....
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To: Neocon who wrote (646)9/7/1999 11:51:00 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 6418
 
>My argument is that although the doubt should be reflected in less severe penalties, there
is no difference in logic between the development that ensues from conception to the
third month, and that which ensues from infancy to adulthood, they are all just
developmental stages, and therefore (this is where you jump the logical tracks imo) the procedure should be illegal. To use the analogy
I made a while back, suppose that one shot into a form of uncertain status, not knowing
if it were alive or dead? What would be the moral status of the act? Pretty obviously,
one would have done wrong....Cobalt mentioned brain activity as a good developmental
marker, and there is something to that. However, we do not consider those in a coma to
be Unpersons, we only consider depriving lifesupport to those in a persistent vegetative
state, and we only deem those with clearly irreversible, flatline brain damage to be dead.
Since the embryo will develop neurologically under normal circumstances, it is hard to
make out that it is much different from any other developmental stage...<

The preceding is only true if you first define killing as wrong- or this specific kind of killing as wrong. And then you have to support why you believe that. Mentioning atheism as you do I assume yours is a religious argument. The Bible clearly does not posit that all killing is wrong as the God of the old Testament smote people right and left and helped other old testament figures to smite people. Killing is fine in the Bible as long as it is the right kind of killing. I do not recall anything in the Bible that really applies to this particular kind of killing. Of course that would not make any difference to me anyway. I was merely curious.
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