karent wrote:
Jack, all your examples are illegal.
When I hear "killing babies", I envision post-birth children.
Interesting.
So you have no moral or ethical problem with segregation or slavery whilst they were occuring since they were legal at the time?
And you have no moral or ethical problem with the Prophet Mohammad marrying a 6 year old girl and then consummating the marriage (that means he had sex with her) when she was 9 years old because it was legal?
Hows about burning "witches" during the Salem Witch Trials..? It was clearly "legal" to burn the women because they had due process and it was "legal" when it happened, yes?
Denying women and blacks the right to vote was also morally and ethically acceptable until the law was changed because it was "legal" and so it was A-OK?
Stoning women to death in Iran or other Muslim countries is OK as well because it's "legal" in those countries?
Tiger1 wrote:
So, Karen, what are the babies in the mothers womb? A frog, fish, snake, pig, etc??? THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS, just like the mother.
When you define the worth of a human being by it's age, disability, ethnic, religion, etc, the human race as a whole has evolved into BARBARIANS.
Indeed.
Much as Tiger's example of the Jews being killed in WW2 (which was "legal" in Germany) because they were not considered fully "human", (blacks were considered "legally" to count as 3/5 of their total number for purposes of taxation and congressional representation..but I digress) it is much easier to consider a baby still in the womb as somehow not being actually "human" although they clearly are, and so they can be killed with impunity without considering the moral or ethical aspects of such a revolting act.
It is a cowardly rationale for condoning a morally reprehensible crime.