By that standard, we as a society should pass and enforce laws that pregnant women must eat only healthy food and exercise regularly because everything that a pregnant woman does affects someone else's body and she has no right to force an improper diet on the youngling. And they should be...
So, she goes through nine months of physical changes and lots of pain at the end, granted. Afterwards, however, both parties share the responsibility for raising the child either as a married couple or by means of child support. That's at least an 18 year commitment. How does 9 months trump 18...
Considering that this thread is about abortion, it seems that your views, however correct, are not pertinent to to topic. If you believe there should be no choice in the matter, that's that. However, if the woman is granted the right to choose, why should the man not be allowed to choose as well?
At present, the man is left at the mercy of the woman. If she chooses abortion but he wants the child, he can do nothing to prevent the abortion. If she has the child and he does not want it, he is responsible for 18 years of child-support.
How this is fair or equitable is unfathomable.
In...
And during that fifteen years he sired a son who was, by all accounts, the worst king in the history of Israel. Would have been better to let him die, huh?
This is perhaps the first issue upon which you and I have disagreed. Death as punishment is not the same as murder. Without appropriate punishment, there can be no law and without law there can be no civilization. It just seems to me to be far more cruel to lock someone up for life than to...
I know what you mean but if they are in prison they have contact with other prisoners or guards or what have you. As for putting them in isolation, I again say that for us to act barbarically toward them is not right. Justice is served by death, not by life imprisonment. What you are proposing...
I don't agree that behaving barbarically toward barbarians is appropriate. Kill them and have done with it. Otherwise, they will live to breed the kind of scum that we find throughout the prison systems.
I come from a traditional family. I am married and have lots of kids. I have no "gay" tendencies. But that does not mean that I am incapable of rational thought. You seem to think that homosexuality is an all-or-nothing proposition as far as society is concerned. What you fail at is recognizing...
Life in prison is a worse punishment than death, IMHO. I honestly think we don't employ the DP enough. Look at places where they take the DP seriously (anywhere in the Middle East will do) and look at the crime statistics. As far as cause & effect, I think they demonstrate that if used properly...
I have to wonder what you mean by "preservation of society." There are some who in the past thought that giving women the right to vote was not beneficial to society or giving people of color equal rights would not be beneficial to society or even that having a nation on this continent that was...
That's funny. Then again, it really begs the question if anything can be known. If the answer is "no" then why is there so much effort put into finding it?
Hitler is not a representative sample of humans in general. There are perhaps five men in all of history that can compare to him. However, the people who gave him power and who actually carried out his orders would be a good example of what I think you are saying.
May I break this down to see if I am understanding this correctly?
In the case of individuals who are interrogated as terrorists, for example, the power to resist interrogation is really an illusion of invulnerability?
Consequently, those who feel that they could resist interrogation by their...
There is no such thing as "Christian thought." There are only opinions based whatever absurdities each individual within the religion is willing to accept.