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Thread #133740 Message #3041423
Posted By: Steve Shaw
27-Nov-10 - 11:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: Pope 'condones condom use in some cases
Subject: RE: BS: Pope 'condones condom use in some cases
Here's your allegedly rhetorical question again, for your delectation.
If god creates life do we have the right to terminate that life to make our own existence easier?
"If" makes the whole thing conditional, which I was quite happy to go along with. You could also have asked "Even if God..." or "Even if God hadn't..." or "If there's a God who..." The question, whichever way you could have put it, potentially arouses varying opinions and is therefore not rhetorical. It is certainly strongly tendentious and very clumsy. It seems to assign only base motives to those people who terminate "lives," so it's insensitive as well as tendentious. On the whole, crass, whether rhetorical or not.