“Category error” - really. Nice to know you feel free to speak for god.
“A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. Modern society has the means of protecting itself, without definitively denying criminals the chance to reform. I renew the appeal I made most recently at Christmas for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.” (Homily at the Papal Mass in the Trans World Dome, St. Louis, Missouri, January 27, 1999).
“Category” error doesn’t speak for God. It’s a matter of rules about reasoning.
Your second reply shows that you struggle with matters of logic.
Capital punishment takes a guilty life.
Abortion takes an innocent life.
That’s all I said. I said nothing about if and when capital punishment should be exercised.
Nothing.
Nothing.
I just pointed out that the two actions have a very different premise. Therefore, they cannot be equivalents.
To take the life of someone mentally incompetent is to take a non-guilty life. If the justice system finds someone guilty who is innocent, the fault lies with the justice system. The justice system then has to be fixed.
But that is logically irrelevant to abortion. Taking the life of someone falsely found guilty would be an abuse of capital punishment because, as I started out by pointing out, those who say capital punishment is justified say it is justified only on the basis of guilt.
If our justice system truly can no longer distinguish between guilty and innocent, then we’ve got lot bigger problem than capital punishment.
But legalizing the deaths of obviously innocent people by the millions might just contribute to an inability to distinguish well between guilty and innocent, dontcha think?
Nice way to hijack a thread with illogic.