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Originally Posted by AustinMike
Okay. And you say this, why? .
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See your next point where you say pro-life has been co-opted by people who do not support abortion (generally, this is the right). Get the little joke now?
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Originally Posted by AustinMike
Yes, I know what it is co-opted to mean by those who are against abortion. But seriously, how can a person claim to be pro-life if he/she wants to execute people? Seriously. That's all I want to know.
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Because most people are on the whole reasonable are not absolutist hardliners in every facet. A majority of people were fine with killing Osama Bin Laden. Very few people are fine with killing a new, innocent life (abortion is a disagreement primarily on when life begins) that has done no wrong. A person who supports the death penalty does not believe EVERYONE should be executed.
This illogical and absurd argument can be made for pro-choice too. A pro-choice person supports some right to get an aboriton. They do not believe literally everyone for any reason in all issues can make any choice. They still believe in some rule of law. A pro-choice person does not support a right for me to do anything at any time for any reason.
Most people are not cartoonish hardline absolutist caricatures of a human being.
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Originally Posted by AustinMike
This thread got derailed when abortion was thrown in the mix. Don't pretend otherwise.
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Perhaps in the sense that it got off-topic, but it was a quite reasonable debate until BobC and you pretended not to be able to understand common words and phrases.