Sunday, January 8, 2012

Religous people, what is your opinion on Abortion?

My argument isnt just based on that so much, as it is on the idea that some human lives are more worthless than others. I feel like I have to point out the otherside of this coin. Science doesn’t know much about life. Physics is another story entirely, gravity is pretty unambiguous for example, but as far as biology and life goes science doesn’t even know what life is let alone when it begins. What is the definition of life? One clic definition is that life is anything that grows/eats/produces offspring.What about fire? Fire isn’t alive even though it fits that definition. Life is anything that grows/eats/produces offspring/thinks.What about plants? They don’t think but they are alive. Pretty quickly you discover that the only definition of life we have so far is, “I know it when I see it.” Since we don’t even know what life is, it’s very difficult to unambiguously declare that life begins at conception. I would argue that life begins at birth. Why? Because before then you only have one living being, not two. In the words of Dr. House, a fetus is a parasite that cannot live on its own. Saying a fetus is a distinct living being is like saying my arm is a distinct living being. My arm is alive, yes, but you can’t murder my arm. My argument doesn’t have much to do with that, I’m perfectly willing to grant that a fetus is alive, I just wanted to point out that things aren’t that simple. For example, cutting off a finger and murdering a person are totally different, as is killing a fetus vs. killing a baby.Point is, my argument in favor of abortion is that killing is basically ok. Humans kill everything. We kill cows because they taste good/trees because we like paper/germs because they make us feel bad/deer because we love hunting/roaches cause they are gross, and 1000s of other species. Pretty much every species on Earth has been killed by humans at some point for some reason. We kill old people (euthanasia, and insurance companies will even pay for it),we kill criminals (capital punishment), we kill ourselves (suicide), we kill each other (war), we kill in self-defense, we kill when we are temporarily insane, and we pull the plug on people who are in comas. I haven’t even started listing all the indirect ways we kill people: drug companies pushing dangerous drugs/insurance companies not paying for lifesaving procedures/people starving in Africa because we can’t be bothered to share some food/athletes playing dangerous sports, smoking, alcohol. 99.99% of the time it’s perfectly okay and legal to kill any living thing you want. The only exception is that you can’t kill another human for no reason. That’s murder. That’s where the line is drawn. Because we understand that some lives are worth more than others. The lives of cows and trees are worthless. Besides, what would we do without our hamburgers and money? Killing those insignificant beings dramatically increases our quality of life, so we do it. It’s not just a “human versus everything else” thing, either. Some human lives are worth more than others. Us Women are worth more than men. If a man kills another man, he’s a d!ck. If a man kills a woman or a child he’s evil/crazy. We also recognize this in abortion: pro-lifers are often in favor of allowing abortions if the mother would otherwise die cause the mother’s life is more valuable than the fetus. As for killing in general, we all want to kill terrorists. Lots of people like to mouth off about the sanctity of life and that all life is sacred. No, no it isn’t. All non-human life is basically canon fodder, and as for human life, a large portion is up for grabs as well. The simple fact is that killing, including killing other humans, is necessary and unavoidable in order to make our lives easier. Have you ever slapped a mosquito? Did you feel bad? No! You hate mosquitoes and they deserve to die! After five weeks, a human fetus is one quarter of an inch long which is smaller than the smallest mosquito anywhere. Given that a mosquito doubles in size when it feeds, it could probably eat the fetus. How has an act as casual as slapping away a mosquito suddenly become murder simply because it’s a fetus? It’s because the fetus is human and a mosquito is not. Calling a fetus human is very dumb. “Goo” is a more like it. A fetus is nothing more than a gooey pile of cells (at least for the first few months). In fact, at this stage in the game a mosquito is far more alive than a fetus. The mosquito can fend for itself, feed itself, procreate, and a fetus can’t do a thing. Why then are we so concerned about the fetus? It’s because the fetus has the POTENTIAL to grow up into a human. Every time a person doesn’t have a potential life is lost. We don’t care about that. I mean, just think about it: do we throw people in jail for having knives in the kitchen because they could potentially kill someone? Calling a fetus a human is like calling me dead. Of course I’m not but I’m on my way there. Of course a fetus isn’

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