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Offtopic, but regarding abortion: Whether or not abortion is a murder is not about definition of "murder" it is about definition of "human being". There's no
by mamon 8y ago
Offtopic, but regarding abortion:
Whether or not abortion is a murder is not about definition of "murder" it is about definition of "human being".
There's no doubt that abortion involves killing a living creature, the whole pro-choice vs pro-life debate is basically about one simple question: "is fetus a human being?". If you answer that with "yes", then every abortion becomes a murder, plain and simple.
This also explains why there will never be a compromise between two crowds: it is logically impossible to compromise on yes/no questions.
- tomatocracy 8y agoIsn’t the compromise position essentially ‘after X weeks’, where the value of X is highly contested? (And on the binary yes/no question there’s nuances too which get debated eg if continuing the pregnancy would be a significant threat to the mother’s life)
- Frondo 8y agoA fetus isn't a living thing. It has the potential to become a living thing, but so do a lot of things that aren't living.