Droopy wrote:If I were to assert that the killing of a single bastocyst was the equivalent to the killing of all these children - even were I to believe that a blastocyst was, for moral purposes, the equivalent of a grade school are child, or a fully adult human, for that matter, - I would be asserting that the killing of a single human being is the moral equivalent of the killing of thirty; that its no worse, from a moral perspective, to kill one innocent person than to kill a room full of innocent persons. From this you could extrapolate to a claim that the killing of one blastocyst is morally equivalent to the the killing fields of Cambodia.
I of course, made no such argument. My contrast was not between the murdered children and "a blastocyst," but between the murdered children and tens of millions of unborn children, from between the first and last trimester, killed, not for any legitimate medical or extenuating psychological/mental health reasons, but as a form of birth control.
Neither you nor any other leftist can run or hide from the moral hypocrisy (and especially those who continue to support partial birth abortion) of being selectively outraged over some kinds of unjustified killing, but oh so very solicitous of others forms - those forms that provide a clean, dispassionate, technical circumvention of the consequences of lifestyle choices and the means of preserving them while ignoring moral questions relative to those choices altogether.
Way to dodge the question.
What is odd about you is your seeming complete inability to recognize ideas and viewpoints that differ from your own. The abortion/gun control issue is just one of many examples. I don't believe that the developing fetus in the first trimester and first half of the second trimester is any more of a "person" than sperm or ovum. Sure, they have the capacity to develop into a person, just like sperm or ovum, but other than having a human body, the fetus does not possess the qualities that make a human body a full-fledged person with rights. So it's quite possible and consistent for me to support abortion in the first trimester and the first half of the second trimester and have real moral outrage at the massacre of these school children.
Yet since you do not share my opinion about abortion and developing fetuses, it is impossible for you to conceive that it is possible and consistent for me to support Roe V Wade and feel genuine outrage over the massacre of these school children. You simply cannot step outside your ideas and consider, even long enough to have a genuine conversation, the ideas of another.
That is why, of course, conversations with you are pointless and should only be engaged if one is inclined to waste time sparring with a crank.