When we choose sin--especially the darkest of sins--over and over again, the Darkness starts to look like the Light, and we are capable of the most barbarous acts in the name of doing the Good.
For example: a Planned Parenthood official can't bring herself to say that a baby who survives a botched abortion should be treated as a patient and given medical care.
"Post birth abortion" is the trendy new euphemism for what sane people call "murder."
Are we just pagans with better hygiene and technology?
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Well, then at what age should we stop? How long "post birth" is abortion then considered OK?
ReplyDeleteI remember in medical ethics one argument we studied (don't remember the ehicist who made it) using a premise that abortion was ok because the life of the unborn child didn't meet the accepted definition of sentience or human life or something (I'm sorry, I wish I could remember it better); then taking this definition he posited that we could ethically kill a child up until about the age of 2 or 3. He may have gone further with it. All I remember is being utterly shocked. Seems like we're getting closer and closer to that way of thinking.
You're talking about Peter Singer. . .an "ethicist" who would be very comfy with the Nazis.
DeleteThat's right. Utilitarianism and "personhood" -what bothered me most was that the students in the class had no issues with his arguments. They were quite willing to go along with these ideas - these students being the future doctors of America. No wonder the descent has seemed so precipitous of late . . . .
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