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HomokHarcos on 08 October 2017
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RolStoppable said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Yes, there are differences. But fundamentally they both result in someone's life being taken away. That's the thing, from my point of view you're essentially arguing that it should be ok to kill someone. That's not a viewpoint I'll ever understand.

That said, I should mention that while I am ethically and morally against abortion I'm not legally against it. To me whether abortion should be legal or not is a separate argument from whether it's ok or not. One with different reasons, primarily that abortion would be all but impossible to actually stop and legal ones are almost certainly better for both mother and baby than illegal ones.

Much of human morales come down to discernible faces.

How do you think about beating a dog to death? How do you think about squatting a fly? Chances are that you consider the former to be appalling while the latter evokes a feeling of good riddance, because flies are annoying. And if the faces of flies were easily discernible, they'd be perceived as so disgusting that the killing of flies wouldn't cause any uproar. It's an easy conclusion to make that the life of a mammal enjoys much greater respect than the life of an insect.

So why are there people who consider it morally okay to abort babies? The legal standards in many countries only allow abortion up to a certain stage of pregnancy, commonly the third month where the conceived child transitions from embryo to fetus. It's in the fetus stage where limbs and the head, and obviously the face, develop. Before that, it's more of a blob. I don't think it's a coincidence that the cutoff for legal abortions is before a face develops.

I'm morally against killing insects now. I absolutely hate having to kill spiders when my sister is scared of them. Yet I eat meat so I guess I'm a hyocrite.