Subj : Re: The US election To : Rob Swindell From : jimmylogan Date : Thu Nov 07 2024 06:59 pm -=> Rob Swindell wrote to jimmylogan <=- RS> Re: Re: The US election RS> By: jimmylogan to Rob Swindell on Thu Nov 07 2024 10:58 am > To take the life of the child for ANY other reason though? Can you > defend that? RS> It's not a child. It's an embryo or at most, a fetus: not a soul that's RS> going to go to heaven and live with Jesus or angels if it's aborted. RS> It's a bunch of cells with the *potential* to be a human, that's it. RS> Your smegma also has the potential to be be human: should we "defend" RS> that potential life by passing/enforcing laws that prevent your blowing RS> your load unless it is to make another (presumably God-fearing) human? How do you define embryo or fetus? I say it's a stage of development. You are also a bunch of cells. What stage of development are you? Embryo, fetus, something else, baby, toddler, pre-teen, teen, adolescent, adult, elderly - they describe development, but they all have one thing in common. They are human beings. If an embryo or fetus is not a human being, then what is it? RS> I think we collectively make humans at a fast enough rate already, we RS> don't need superstition-based laws insuring we make more unwanted/loved RS> ones. Then why not start killing off the excess after birth too? RS> An aborted embryo or fetus makes the uterus available for the creation RS> of another, more planned/wanted/loved child. What's more important: 1. RS> an unwanted embryo/fetus 2. a wanted child? You have a baby and find out it is autistic and probably will never talk. What's more important, keeping that unwanted child or tossing it aside and trying again? RS> The wanted child is less likely to steal your car, rape your wife or RS> shoot up your schools. Let's have more of those children and fewer of RS> the kind you want to "defend" through laws. -- RS> digital man (rob) Couple of things - superstition based laws - so I take it you don't believe that we are created in the image of God? What do you believe? Random chance and evolution? That leads to the answer of the 'wanted' child and society, so answer that one first please. .... Being paranoid doesn't mean they _aren't_ out to get you! --- MultiMail/Mac v0.52 * Origin: Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com (1:105/7) .