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Not to be harsh, but who cares what they think? Other major religions differ, and flat out contradict these viewpoints. It's a question of someone's religious d
by throwaway5752 4y ago
Not to be harsh, but who cares what they think? Other major religions differ, and flat out contradict these viewpoints. It's a question of someone's religious doctrine, not federal law. We don't favor a particular religious viewpoints in the US - that is explicitly in the Constitution.
- esyir 4y agoAnd people wonder why decisions can be made and polarization continues to increase. "Who cares what they think indeed"
- throwaway5752 4y agoThey believe they should dictate the behavior of other people, that's fundamentally asymmetrical to the counterpoint. The "other side" is not advocating compulsory abortions, they are advocating individual freedom to make a deeply personal decision. The people that want to ban abortion for all people are taking away rights from people they disagree with. Who cares what they think, indeed. If I want to disband and illegalize the Southern Baptist Convention because I sincere believe they are heretics, who cares about my sincerely held beliefs about what others should do? I should should just not go to a Southern Baptist church.
- ben_w 4y agoThis group happens to have enough power that saying "who cares what they think" leads to them doing exactly what you don't want them to do. The only way I know to reduce that power while retaining your system of government is to make an argument which actually convinces them, which requires you to care what they think, both in order to understand their motivations well enough to actually construct an argument with this effect, and as an indicator of how much progress you're making with it.