I'm pro choice but this is an abortion too far.

[Enigma_Nova]

I dunno... my family and friends tend to die (in fact it seems like they all die at some point!) and I'm not too fussed.
Then again, I'm majorly responsible for my mother's housebound agony, so I suppose I might mind death if someone I LIKED died... but I wouldn't be around to notice, would I?

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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
As for the burden to society, why then do we not kill everyone who goes on welfare? They are a burden to society.

Think of the future. I am a Student living on welfare and as such am a 'burden' now. Mind you, spending money to educate me (and my academic colleagues) is a wise investment, as our brains will surely be useful tools.

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My stance on Abortion?
You'll find I'm quite pro-abortion. This is based on the premise that an unwanted child is a neglected child.
I'm also anti-adoption due to a low faith in people's abilities to raise children.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
I don't know about Sava but che certainly is.

Why don't you be specific about what you want me to address?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Why don't you be specific about what you want me to address?

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?postid=2524194#post2524194

[Ned]

Dino, it looks like Che is never going to answer the question.

[Ben Kenobi]

Think of the future. I am a Student living on welfare and as such am a 'burden' now. Mind you, spending money to educate me (and my academic colleagues) is a wise investment, as our brains will surely be useful tools.

Exactly. Now tell me why the same does not apply to children who are deformed? Surgery can improve their lives by repairing the cleft lip.

One of our MPs has a cleft lip. Are you telling me that such a person is not successful? He's our minister of finance.

[Ben Kenobi]

You'll find I'm quite pro-abortion. This is based on the premise that an unwanted child is a neglected child.
I'm also anti-adoption due to a low faith in people's abilities to raise children.

E-Nova:

If your premisses were true, you would have an eminently logical case. However, there are a great deal of families that would be willing to adopt chiildren, but cannot because there are none available. Surely some would be good caretakers, otherwise you would have a case to say that no women ought to be mothers because they can't take care of their children perfectly.

Now, is it the fault of the child that his mother does not love him? No. Why then should we allow the mother to kill her child? It is a sign of a sick society that we must kill children to ensure that all of them are wanted.

[Ben Kenobi]

There is a point to this case in that it may enable a better definition of serious disability, which is obviously a bit woolly

"But the gears do not grind that smoothly."

This path will never lead to a proper definition that allows us to kill all the children before they are born, yet also allow for those who are born to stay alive.

Serious deformity cannot be empirically assessed, and is therefore a poor criterion for personhood.

[Ben Kenobi]

That's where I start. This is why aborting a serious deformed or retarded fetus is OK in my view.

Our current system of prolonging agony is the height of inhumanity.

All life is suffering. I would not presume for anyone else to kill them to spare their suffering. For if we are wrong, we cannot correct our error.