You're playing with words here. You know what Thorongil is saying. If it's not murder, what is it? What is the word for immoral killing of another human, whether or not it's illegal? — T Clark
There is a moral duty not to murder it once alive. — Thorongil
Nature did not give me the power to have one :rofl:Don't approve of abortions? Then don't have one. — Bitter Crank
No, you probably don't think that. Do you think gluttony should be illegal? Not everything immoral ought to be illegal because not everything immoral has harmful consequences on third-parties. We only make those immoral actions which have harmful consequences on third-parties illegal. If an immoral action harms just the doer, then there are no grounds for it to be outlawed.I think everything that's immoral should be illegal. — Thorongil
No.It's gunning down people who made it all the way to personhood, a name, preferences, friends, lovers, etc. that outrages people. — Bitter Crank
It's a woman's right to choose if she wants a child or not. — René Descartes
And you believe in God?I don't see anything wrong with abortion. It's a woman's right to choose if she wants a child or not. — René Descartes
I don't see anything wrong with abortion. It's a woman's right to choose if she wants a child or not.
— René Descartes
And you believe in God? — Agustino
And Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction, all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” — 1 Samuel 15
This is what the LORD says: "About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again."
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