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To: TigersEye
So murder should be legal?

You missed my obvious point again, so I'll restate it: If you fail to intervene in order to prevent or punish someone for a murder, that doesn't mean you were in favor of that murder, it doesn't mean that you committed murder, and it doesn't mean that you are generally "pro-murder", does it? Were Americans pro-Hitler before we entered WWII? Of course not. Why anti-abortion zealots cannot understand the ridiculousness of their implication that no one can maintain a position of neutrality on the issue of abortion is beyond me.

With regard to the issue of whether murder should be illegal, the answer is obvious: yes, because murder is provably wrong and civilization cannot be maintained unless it is forcibly deterred/remedied. Abortion choice, on the other hand, is not provably wrong and civilization can be maintained without it being forcibly deterred/remedied.

209 posted on 11/09/2002 1:03:59 AM PST by ravinson
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To: ravinson
I have heard this debate for 20 years and to rationalize death is totally rediculous. The term, 'intelligent imbecile' comes to mind.
210 posted on 11/09/2002 1:06:57 AM PST by John Lenin
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To: ravinson
Why anti-abortion zealots cannot understand the ridiculousness of their implication that no one can maintain a position of neutrality on the issue of abortion is beyond me.

Apparently you miss the point. I didn't. Can you maintain a position of neutrality on the issue of murder?

...because murder is provably wrong...

Prove it then. Prove to me in clearly stated objective terms that murder is wrong. What is wrong with it?

266 posted on 11/09/2002 9:08:57 AM PST by TigersEye
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