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If 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 ga
by chucksmash 11y ago
If 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?