That liberals are opposed to capital punishment, but support abortion, and conservatives support the death penalty, but are opposed to abortion. (Okay I took this from It's Always Sunny.... but I thought it very interesting)
2006-08-07 11:54:32 · 8 answers · asked by harrisbradley 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
You must talking about the right wingers and the left wingers. That's because neither have open minds. Both parties only think in terms of black and white.
2006-08-07 12:02:33 · answer #1 · answered by Don S 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Liberals are not thinking of abortion as death.
They do not think a fetus is a human being.
They feel sorry for poor people who cannot afford children.
They also feel sorry for criminals, because they feel they are that way because they were abused as children.... therefore, abortion is better than child abuse.
Conservatives do NOT all support the death penalty, but most all of them do believe that abortion is the taking of a human life, therefore equal to murder of an innocent. When they support the death penalty, it is because they feel that the guilty should be punished and taken away from this life so they cannot continue to take other human lives.
2006-08-07 19:07:16 · answer #2 · answered by mia2kl2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some conservatives support capital punishment. There are some in the right wing that do not support capital punishment. I am pro life and pro death penalty.
I am pro life because an abortion is too easily available for people who have sex and want to avoid the consequences of their bad choice.
I am pro death penalty because when you intentionally take a life, you lose the right to have yours. In my world, there are consequences for your behavior.
2006-08-07 19:10:41 · answer #3 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a conservative and I support choice, not abortion. Very few people support abortion, though I can think of one person who probably would. I support the woman's and hopefully her mate's right to choose. As for capital punishment, I lean more toward it than away from it but I'm not strong in my support of it.
2006-08-07 18:59:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unrelated concepts.
But if you want a connection -- liberals don't think the government should be making decisions about who lives and who dies. They think it should always be up the individual. So, for reproductive rights, that means the individual chooses whether or not to be pregnant. For end-of-life decisions, it should again be the individual. So assisted suicide should be legal, and capitol punishment (state-mandated termination of an adult life) should not.
Conservatives think that the government should be the only one making decisions about who lives and who dies. So, individuals have no choice in the matter either at the beginning or the end of the process.
But really, they are two entirely unrelated issues.
2006-08-07 18:58:50 · answer #5 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The liberal position, as usual, is indefensible and illogical.
The conservative position is well founded: killing the unborn is immoral as the (baby/fetus) has not committed any crime. The death penalty is reserved only for the most heinous of crimes, the criminal has made it clear to society that their continued living is hazardous to the rest of us around him/her.
2006-08-07 19:00:27 · answer #6 · answered by Joe Rockhead 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is fair for them to support a woman's decision what to do with her body. No one has the right to take that away from her. If you can't understand that then you put yourself in the shoes of any woman you gets raped and as a baby she can't in any way support it-now what are you going to do?!?
2006-08-07 19:00:26 · answer #7 · answered by Desert Queen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
flip flop they don't know what thier for
2006-08-07 18:58:39 · answer #8 · answered by idontkno 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋