| mrstickball said: Akuma, what about other social issues that you may not do yourself, and think bad of, but still think is OK for others? 1) Slavery? 2) Illicit Drug Use? 3) Smoking? 4) Drunk Driving? Ect. To some people, there are some issues that are morally outrageous, and are black and white. Some (if not many) pro-lifers feel this way about abortion, and pro-choice. |
First, you are trying to bleed together morality and social laws once again. I'm not going to entangle myself in that. A fetus has little or no rights under our legal system. I am perfectly fine with that decision. Its not like a fetus can walk into a court room and file a lawsuit or something, and even a parent who tried to file a suit on his behalf when he was in utero couldn't do so because he isn't recognized by our legal system. He has no name, no birth certificate, and a tenuous amount of rights. Furthermore, there is a conflicting interest because the fetus is literally a resident of another person whose rights must also be protected.
A person who is enslaved by someone or killed by a drunk driver DOES have rights under our legal system. A person who harms them doesn't have a conflicting interest that we must protect. They are simply harming someone else for an entirely selfish reason, not because they are responsible for taking care of that person if they are born. It isn't an entirely selfish decision to have an abortion, although pro-life people will try to say that it is.
Giving rights to a fetus is extremely complicated, and can get us into a chicken before the egg situation. Do we start giving people's sperm and eggs rights? I'm perfectly fine with the approach our legal system has taken.
1) Already addressed this
2) I generally don't care what drugs people choose to use as long as they aren't committing crimes because of the drugs they are one.
3) Same as above
4) Already addressed this.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
