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To: Modernman
But you think it is right for the gov't to prohibit theft and murder?

Sure. Why wouldn't I?

Then you shouldn't really have any problem with Christians who want to prohibit murder in all cases.

SD

632 posted on 05/06/2005 11:05:37 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
Then you shouldn't really have any problem with Christians who want to prohibit murder in all cases.

In all cases? Killing someone in self-defense is technically murder, but we have decided to remove such killing from the legal definition.

In the case of abortion, there is the added argument of whether or not a fetus is a human being.

If you want to be an absolutist on murder, I have no problem with that. But you aren't. You draw the line at a different place than people who are pro-choice, but you draw the line nonetheless.

637 posted on 05/06/2005 11:09:55 AM PDT by Modernman ("Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde)
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