I occasionally jump out of airplanes, as part of my employment with Uncle Sam. This metaphor sprung into my head upon reading your above line.
Imagine that you jump out of an airplane, and you realize that your parachute doesn't work? When should you be considered dead? At 1000 feet? 100? 10? Once you hit zero, you'll be medically and legally dead, but at what point are you pretty much assured to die?
Most people haven't fallen from such a height, but I can assure you that things don't look nearly as real from 1000 feet then they do at 10. It's never real to me until the last few seconds.
I'd say, being pregnant is pretty much the same thing, just in reverse. Once you start the process, the conclusion is pretty inevitible (barring miscarriages or suddenly correcting your parachute malfunction), regardless of how things appear to you at the time.
Now, how do we use the slavery/"inferior human beings with fewer rights" argument to argue against abortion, but keep that argument from being used in regards to homosexuality? Thoughts?
Easy. With slavery and abortion, the discrimination is automatic and arbitrary. You are black, hence I can enslave you. You are unborn, hence I can kill you.
The victim, in each case, doesn't do anything. They simple ARE.
With homosexuality, a group isn't being singled out arbitrarily. Individuals are singling themselves out by their personal actions.
Hollywood types who scream 'censorship' fall for the same logical fallacy when they say stupid things and find themselves less popular. No one is 'discriminating' against them for who or what they are. They DID something that caused other people not to like them.
People should not be discriminated against for what they are. That has nothing to do with being judged by your actions. There is 'right to be approved for anything you do'.
i'll admit to not really seeing the analogy as it relates to abortion, but to answer your question... i would consider you dead when you died, not at 1000, 100, or 10 feet.
you would seem to be saying that if black slaves had the ability to be white, and therefore no longer slaves, then it would be ok to enslave the ones that chose not to be white... is that about right???