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That is a very good point, too, one that had never occurred to me. Joel Send a noteboard - 13/08/2013 06:57:34 PM

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This is actually fairly coherent and similar to what I believe.

I'd like to add that, on the subject of fetuses/persons/not-persons, we kill all the time, for our own benefit, creatures of much higher mental and emotional capacities than a fetus. So, on the one hand, if you can condone killing a cow you can probably also condone killing a fetus, and on the other, it seems puzzling that pro-life and vegetarianism don't ever align.


Regardless of how one feels about each issue separately, it is another case where advocating one without the other is contradictory, or at least inconsistent. The standard response, of course, is that pro-lifers are only concerned with HUMAN life, but, ultimately, that attitude is somewhat arbitrary, even cavalier. If we accept or even demand various exceptions to a standard whenever convenient it is not much of a standard.
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Re: In my case, because of the areas certainty exists and those where it is impossible. - 13/08/2013 02:01:51 PM 982 Views
That is a very good point, too, one that had never occurred to me. - 13/08/2013 06:57:34 PM 1020 Views
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