Alabama has elected a Democratic senator

[palou]

VGPolyglot said:

palou said:

Now, don't get me wrong, I have no love for the American rightwing, but I definitely think that that's a rhetoric that is both heavily overgeneralizing and to the detriment of constructive discussion. 

 

The central piece of the abortion discussion is if the child/fetus, in that instance, can or cannot be qualified as a being with similar rights to a human. If you take that as true, then abortion is obviously wrong, if you take that as false, abortion is obviously fine. That's what needs to be discussed. Name-calling is uselessly provocative.

He said he supported capital punishment, so obviously killing is fine, so there would have to be other reasons for it. The only one I can think of is sexism.

I think, then, you are not trying hard enough.

 

I could certainly think of several different moral schemes that could lead to that. While I don't personally support death penalty, I do support prison sentences, in some cases, for example. That does not mean that I think that locking people up is generally fine, just as he doesn't necessarily think that killing people is generally fine. It is perfectly reasonable to view actions differently based on context.

 

Also, the correct course of action, when you don't understand something, is to ask the person for insight, not make your own malicious conclusions.