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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (77556)	10/15/2003 11:50:57 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

There are some things that you are assuming that may be barring the door. Correct me if I am wrong but don't we have to assume some basis for an atheist who is a libertarian to be anti-abortion in the first place. Karen is having a hard time with that, as am I. Of course it is possible for an atheist who is a libertarian to take an anti-abortion stand but the usual position that would justify that (murdering a human soul), would seem hard to justify as a position of conscience. In addition, I argued earlier that there may be a difference in what is viewed as the basis for 'conscience.' That has not been cleared up. Even though 'Freedom of Conscience' appears to you and I to extend the same benefits granted by Freedom of Religion to the non-religious; the non-religious still seem to be getting tickled by the gorilla. I suspect that is because we have not gotten to the bottom of a common definition for 'conscience'. I can think of some examples other than abortion, Mojo, and James but they all point to a more conservative standard of ethics than attributed to the norm and usually involve some element of privacy or morality.