. I get impatient, even angry, with all the breath and brainpower used to defend "the unborn" when even a fraction of that energy, properly spent, could alleviate enormous amounts of very real suffering among those who are neglected and despairing.
I think you exagerate its potential effects. If I posted more about a topic conserning the suffering of all ready born people, or the protestors in front of abortion clinics set up shop somewhere else for another issue, in most cases their efforts would not have a major impact. For that matter if pro-life people where not pro-life (or at least cared about it a lot less), but they wanted to remain active on social, political, and/ or moral issues, they might often find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the issue, or on opposites sides from you.
My posting here on this issue is as much entertainment as it is a political act. I would love to convince someone, but I recognize the odds are extremly low. In addition to a political activity and something I do for entertainment I have found it also helps me understand the opinions of others and helps at least some other people to understand my views. This greater understanding is probably a good thing. (and in many other political convesations it is less possible because the conversation has more heat and less light then a lot of the conversation here).
If I took the energy I put into this in to other political areas, I would be likely to disagree with you on many of those issues as well. If I spent less of my time opposing abortion and more of it opposing gun control, or pushing for lower taxes, would that be a positive thing in your opinion? I probably could and maybe should do more practically to help people, working for charities and such, but it would not involve just taking the same energy on spent on the abortion issue. It would involve a lot more energy.
Tim |
