I pulled out while my wife was ovulating. I'm a murderer. I mean sure my sperm couldn't have been a person, and her egg couldn't have been a person, but together they could have been a doctor and a fucking ruined it by splooging all over our sheets. Or did I?
I hate it when people take something morally grey and try to make it obvious black and white. People really need to stop with the binary thinking. I wouldn't hesitate to give a cheeseburger to a starving child to save their life, but I would eat at MCdonalds rather than donate that money to a charity to feed and educate african children. I would find it irresponsible for a woman to get drunk, laid, pregnant and then abort it because it's inconvenient, but not in the least for a 14 year old raped by her father. Despite what religious authorities teach us, morality is not binary. It's complex and gradient. Consequentialism is hard and unpredictable, virtue ethics less so, but black and white ethics by concrete rules is just damn lazy, irresponsible and unempathetic.
That man in the video is a hero. The problem with christians is they are so unlike their christ (thank you ghandi). I doubt if the Jesus presented in the gospels would be standing outside an abortion clinic with pictures of dead fetuses. The Jesus that these women supposedly represent was a philosopher that balked at the ridiculous rules of his religious leaders and carved out a new moral code for his time, instilling a virtue ethic just like many other great thinkers had. He thought consequentially, gave a series of virtues based on his reasoning, and in time religious leaders simplified it into binary good/bad thinking so the masses didn't have to go through the mess of thinking for themselves when various situations came up. Much like those women there aren't actually thinking, they are just following a prescribed morality by numbers that is gross and cruel.
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