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- From: HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.)
- Subject: Re: Abortion vs. Adoption
- In-Reply-To: frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de's message of Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:37:52 GMT
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- In <1992Sep4.153752.1234@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de writes:
-
- > : I *feel* fine about it. I have no moral doubts whatsoever.
- >
- > Which is all that needed to be said... Thanks.
- >
- > So to say that abortion is always immoral is to call this woman and countless
- > others liars, or to deny the existence of conscience. Any bible-thumpers
- > care to comment?
-
- I'm no "thumper" (hard to read that way), but lots of "evil" acts are
- performed without any moral qualms whatsoever on the parts of those committing
- them. Does this somehow make the act or the person less evil? Was Hitler less
- evil because he truly believed he was right? (This is just an example, please
- don't accuse me of equating these people with Hitler)
-
- Can you say "eye of the beholder"? I don't think she's lying, nor do I
- deny the existence of conscience.
-
- > You see, this is what I cannot understand - that everyone seems
- > to "know" that (say) murder is wrong, because their conscience tells
- > them so. If abortion is supposed to be in some way equivalent to
- > murder, then why is a similar consensus missing from the abortion
- > issue?
-
- This is in fact not a "new" question. See below.
-
- > How could something which is supposed to be so *very* wrong produce
- > such divisive debate? And how could something which is *not at all*
- > wrong produce such divisive debate?
-
- Ever hear of slavery? The American Civil War? A lot of people thought
- slavery was right and good. A lot thought it was evil and immoral. The latter
- group won (I'm oversimplifying, but that was the net effect). So now almost
- all of us agree that slavery is evil and immoral.
-
- > Isn't it because the issue is not nearly so black and white as both
- > sides would have you believe, having as much to do with delivering
- > mothers as delivering babies?
- > Frank O'Dwyer Disclaimer:
-
- Things tend to be black and white to the victors and those who read
- their histories in the decades which follow. You are right. It ain't black
- and white to everybody. Or rather both sides think they are light and the
- other darkness. Conscience is a funny thing, isn't it?
-
- semper fi,
-
- Jammer Jim Miller
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