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Playing the devil advocate here but if we extend that logic to other things does it still work? If a sovereign democratic country passes a law to murder 5% of
by it_citizen 4y ago
Playing the devil advocate here but if we extend that logic to other things does it still work?
If a sovereign democratic country passes a law to murder 5% of its population, don't we have a moral obligation to intervene and prevent them to do so despite them being free, sovereign and democratic.
My point is: Moral obligations can compel you to ignore any other concept you value if you consider the problem serious enough.
- jliptzin 4y agoYou are not extending the same logic though. The overwhelming majority of people, across all countries (hopefully 99%+) agree that murder (of innocent post-birth, actual people) should be illegal and indeed murder is illegal probably in every country that has a system of law. There seems to be no recognition by the anti abortion side that even though roughly half or more of the world disagrees with their stance, they’re just going to ignore that, insist that they’re right, and try to impose their view on everyone else anyway.