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They're not very different if you believe that personal ethical beliefs can be used as a justification to not provide a service.
by blfr 11y ago
They're not very different if you believe that personal ethical beliefs can be used as a justification to not provide a service.
- chucksmash 11y agoIf you supply drugs to be used in an execution, you are part of a chain of actions that ends with the intentional taking of a life. If you bake a cake for a gay couple, you are part of a chain of actions that sort of, kind of, indirectly might offend your sensibilities. Those two outcomes are vastly dissimilar - equating them because they are both "doing things you object to as a matter of conscience" is too reductionist by half.
- blfr 11y agoIf you supply drugs (or facilities) to be used in an abortion, you are part of a chain of actions that ends with the intentional taking of a life. Same with assisted suicide. But even the magnitude cutoff is arbitrary. At which point is the result "bad enough" that ethical reservations start to apply?