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Offline zookeeper

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Re: Yet another abortion debate
But it's not a case of one or the other (as it might be with a 7 month pregnancy where the baby might survive the death of its mother). It's not even ends justify the means. This foetus will not survive. So it isn't taking one life to save the other. It's saving one life or saving neither.
The bottom line is that one cannot commit straight-up murder in order to save a life.  Period.  You do whatever you can to save both of them and leave the rest in God's hands, but deliberately killing the fetus is morally indefensible.  Like I said, I expect most of you to find that foolish, but I can't say that I care.

And seriously, iamzack, your shtick is beyond tiresome.

Again, omission bias: the tendency to treat an action carried out by omission as somehow different from one carried out by positive action.

But that is still correct. If someone falls in front of an incoming train and you don't help them, the train hitting them is not your fault. It would be your fault that you didn't help them, but clearly that's a remarkably smaller evil to commit than actually running them over with a train yourself.

Omission bias makes perfect sense. It doesn't mean that lesser evil is a bad thing, just that the greater evil isn't your fault regardless of whether you commit a lesser evil to prevent it or not.

 

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Re: Yet another abortion debate
why would you say both have equal value?
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Re: Yet another abortion debate
So murdering both is better?

It would appear that 'death due to inaction' does not equal murder.

If two people fell in front of a train and you had the chance to save one but instead decided to save neither because you didn't want the responsibility of making a decision I don't see how its a moral choice.  I'd rather have one person's blood on my conscience then two.

I'd go for the closest one.  :blah: In my mind, it would be justified as I only had a chance to save one, why not take the more sure chance?  :blah:
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Offline iamzack

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why would you say both have equal value?

Because neither are adult, straight, white christian men.
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Offline Bobboau

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you forgot rich, and republican conservative.
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Re: Yet another abortion debate
Mongoose is right. I really want to be doing this, much less read the same old arguments once again.


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