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the same goes for any social problem you help solve. People are quite upset about kids getting separated from parents at the border. Yet offer no help for the

the same goes for any social problem you help solve. People are quite upset about kids getting separated from parents at the border. Yet offer no help for the thousands of children that die every day. Every person decides what cause is important to them. The hypocrisy is when people who favor one cause judge those who arent interested in that cause.

curiousgal 8y ago
I am not fishing for drama but I want to speak my mind. On that note, the most blatant form of hypocrisy in my opinion is pro-"life" supporters whose main argument is "think of the children" yet they also ignore the thousands of children that die every day.
- radiantswirl 8y ago
  Those children aren't being systematically murdered with the full support of the government tho. I'm pro-choice I'm just saying its not fair to compare abortion to child deaths in general.
  - curiousgal 8y ago
    >Those children aren't being systematically murdered with the full support of the government tho. Wars kill children.
    - pitt1980 8y ago
      If your moral worldview doesn't equate those effected by abortion as valueless clumps of cells, The moral scale of legalized abortion dwarfs that of modern wars -------- Between 1945 and 1992, there were 149 major wars, killing more than 23 million people. ... Recent developments in warfare have significantly heightened the dangers for children. During the last decade, it is estimated (and these figures, while specific, are necessarily orders of magnitude) that child victims have included: 2 million killed; 4-5 million disabled; 12 million left homeless; more than 1 million orphaned or separated from their parents; some 10 million psychologically traumatized.4 https://www.unicef.org/sowc96/1cinwar.htm https://www.unicef.org/sowc96/1cinwar.htm There have been more than 45 million abortions just in the US since Roe v Wade https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_U... ------- ------- ------- I'm guessing that's not your moral world view, but for the sake of understanding the people you disagree with, you should realize that they view legalized abortion as one of the great humanitarian crises of our time, which easily outweighs most other issues that we squabble about. (And yeah, justifies teaming up with otherwise unsavory bedfellows)
      - radiantswirl 8y ago
        Thank you for posting this. I'm pretty pro-choice for emotional reasons, but it's still extremely fascinating to me to learn the pro-life arguments (even if only to bolster my pro-choice views).
- iamgopal 8y ago
  What do you think of masturbation ?
  - dang 8y ago
    Please don't do this here.
- cdoxsey 8y ago
  They don't ignore the thousands of children who die every day. You might not know about it, but Christians support all kinds of charities: food kitchens, medical missions overseas, operation christmas child which gives gifts to kids, the international justice mission which seeks to break kids and adults out of slavery... There are hundreds of examples. One closely related to the topic at hand: crisis pregnancy centers often supply help to new mothers in addition to counseling them to no seek an abortion. That could mean short term housing, job training, community support (bible studies with other mothers), diapers and other baby supplies, etc... Just because you can't help everyone doesn't mean you shouldn't try to help someone. How is any of that hypocrisy?
  - shripadk 8y ago
    You know it would be really great if Christians support all of the things you mentioned without resorting to conversions. There shouldn't be any ulterior motive attached to goodwill. Else it can no longer be called charity and should be labelled trade. What Christians really need to do (especially those in the West) is check if the money and clothes that they donate to Missionaries are actually being used honourably. The end goal should not be soul harvesting at the expense of someone's misery. Genuine goodwill will never go unappreciated; mix in religion and the Act loses it's benevolence. Sorry to put it so bluntly. Read more about this menace here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/missionaries-in-india_b_4470448.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/missionaries-...

curiousgal 8y ago

I am not fishing for drama but I want to speak my mind. On that note, the most blatant form of hypocrisy in my opinion is pro-"life" supporters whose main argument is "think of the children" yet they also ignore the thousands of children that die every day.

radiantswirl 8y ago
Those children aren't being systematically murdered with the full support of the government tho. I'm pro-choice I'm just saying its not fair to compare abortion to child deaths in general.
- curiousgal 8y ago
  >Those children aren't being systematically murdered with the full support of the government tho. Wars kill children.
  - pitt1980 8y ago
    If your moral worldview doesn't equate those effected by abortion as valueless clumps of cells, The moral scale of legalized abortion dwarfs that of modern wars -------- Between 1945 and 1992, there were 149 major wars, killing more than 23 million people. ... Recent developments in warfare have significantly heightened the dangers for children. During the last decade, it is estimated (and these figures, while specific, are necessarily orders of magnitude) that child victims have included: 2 million killed; 4-5 million disabled; 12 million left homeless; more than 1 million orphaned or separated from their parents; some 10 million psychologically traumatized.4 https://www.unicef.org/sowc96/1cinwar.htm https://www.unicef.org/sowc96/1cinwar.htm There have been more than 45 million abortions just in the US since Roe v Wade https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_U... ------- ------- ------- I'm guessing that's not your moral world view, but for the sake of understanding the people you disagree with, you should realize that they view legalized abortion as one of the great humanitarian crises of our time, which easily outweighs most other issues that we squabble about. (And yeah, justifies teaming up with otherwise unsavory bedfellows)
    - radiantswirl 8y ago
      Thank you for posting this. I'm pretty pro-choice for emotional reasons, but it's still extremely fascinating to me to learn the pro-life arguments (even if only to bolster my pro-choice views).
iamgopal 8y ago
What do you think of masturbation ?
- dang 8y ago
  Please don't do this here.
cdoxsey 8y ago
They don't ignore the thousands of children who die every day. You might not know about it, but Christians support all kinds of charities: food kitchens, medical missions overseas, operation christmas child which gives gifts to kids, the international justice mission which seeks to break kids and adults out of slavery... There are hundreds of examples. One closely related to the topic at hand: crisis pregnancy centers often supply help to new mothers in addition to counseling them to no seek an abortion. That could mean short term housing, job training, community support (bible studies with other mothers), diapers and other baby supplies, etc... Just because you can't help everyone doesn't mean you shouldn't try to help someone. How is any of that hypocrisy?
- shripadk 8y ago
  You know it would be really great if Christians support all of the things you mentioned without resorting to conversions. There shouldn't be any ulterior motive attached to goodwill. Else it can no longer be called charity and should be labelled trade. What Christians really need to do (especially those in the West) is check if the money and clothes that they donate to Missionaries are actually being used honourably. The end goal should not be soul harvesting at the expense of someone's misery. Genuine goodwill will never go unappreciated; mix in religion and the Act loses it's benevolence. Sorry to put it so bluntly. Read more about this menace here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/missionaries-in-india_b_4470448.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/missionaries-...