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Thread #104170   Message #2138370
Posted By: John Hardly
01-Sep-07 - 11:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mutual respect
Subject: RE: BS: Mutual respect
That's not what I'm asking. I am asking "why is it evil?".

It goes back to that Clinton speech where the President said that he thought that abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare". It was wonderfully diplomatic. It seemed like such an understanding thing to say. But it is utter nonsense. It passes exactly the same moral judgement as those who say that abortion should not happen.

Except that it is having one's cake and eating it too.

So it's okay to say, "you are a moral reprobate but we want to make it safe and legal for you to continue in the activity that proves you a moral reprobate". But it is "judgemental" to say that you don't want an evil activity to also be legal.

It defies logic.

And as to the lesser of two evils...

...inconvenience isn't, last I checked, an "evil". It's a, you know, inconvenience.