this is strickly hypothetical: you are pregnant and a psychic[remember hypothetical people] tells you that you are carrying a second version of Hitler. the kid will do the same as Hitler did years ago...would you get an abortion? dont forget its hypothetical! be honest now,
2006-09-02 15:03:39 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
that's why i said hypothetical cause i know not all beleive in psychics...read before answering would be very nice
2006-09-02 15:09:04 · update #1
i dont like offending people i really dont but read the ******* questoin! it says hypothetical!!!! HYPOTHETICAL!! Jesus!!!
2006-09-02 15:11:02 · update #2
Derek AMEN!
2006-09-02 15:12:15 · update #3
I would obviously get an abortion. Some people just shouldn't live, and if anyone decides to answer that they would let the baby be born, why is one life more important than millions? Abortions are necessary, and frankly, those who don't think so should be the people forced to care for all the unwanted babies that are born in situations where an abortion isn't possible. Infanticide is found in nature, and has always been part of population control. Get over it.
2006-09-02 15:16:17 · answer #1 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
well as a prochoice and liberated woman, I have no need for a pregnancy in my life. There honestly is no real need for it. More than likely I would have started for my friday trip to the woman's center.....that is until the gypsy psychic fortune tellertold me I was carrying Hitler's second coming.
OMG! what a chance to carry on a test I have always wanted to test. "predestined destiny vs. self created destiny" Giving birth is not really the end all be all I often tell people it is. And imagine, would the gypsy teller be correct? would this really be a carbon copy of Hitler? Would my child really begin WWIII? or would my child have the equal opportunity to stand alone in the fickle and chaotic nature of fate and actually be raised in a different environment?
I mean really my child can not possibly be the exact copy of Hitler, truly can it? For one thing I am not in Germany, this is not the earliest twentith century. There is not such a social stigma against the Jews on a world wide scale like there was in those terrible years. Oh and Germany is not in a socio-economical slump as it was for the end of WWI and beginning of WWII that triggered and ignited the whole thing.
Perhaps just mere curiousity would keep me from terminating this fictitional and hypotheticalfuture antichrist...because well...if it's destiny that the child be born....who am I to stand in the way of the gods.
It's a paradox, if I had been left alone by this hypothetical anf fictitional gypst psychic foretuneteller, Hitler's second coming would have been terminated ending whatever attrocies might have been associated with his name, however, since the natural order of life has been corrupted and intervened now Hitler's second birth would come about all because I decided to follow a decision. Is it all really worth it?
2006-09-02 15:25:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I categorically disagree with your hypothesis.
Who a person becomes is a matter of nature, nurture, AND choice. If you think they are going to become a monster then you can raise them in such a way and encourage choices in such a way that they will not. Truth is, every child born could become such a monster, and many of them work out their own way of doing it. You are talking about humanity.. hitler wasn't the only evil person. The evil that hitler accomplished was by the aid of a willing participating, equally monstrous civilization. The people who ran concentration camps, or fought in the wars, were equally monstrous, and equally have blood on their hands.
If the civilization is ripe to support such a monster, then there are more than enough ambient monstrous individuals to lead it to carry out its ambitions.
The question behind the question is: Is abortion justified if it stops a monstrous person. That question is based on a false premise that the monster is made up of only one person.
If your answer is yes, then it condones large-scale genocide. If its okay to kill the monster, and the monster is the entire culture, or subculture, then its okay to annihilate the entire subculture or culture. Who defines "monster"? This is tacit permission for Pul Pot to make his killing fields because the intelligista was the monster in his economy. This is tacit permission of Hitler to make his concentration camps because the Jews were an inferior species, not quite human, polluting the human bloodline and he was radically accelerating natural selection. Hitler loved and used psychics, and they certainly either explicitly or tacitly condoned his polcies. They were a part of that monster.
Who says who the monster is? Is the monster the great-satan of America as bin-laden understands it? What about gang-land culture? Gangs kill thousands of people every day, and bring millions of terrible addictive drugs into the country every day promoting theft, and violence.
Do you know what happened in New Orleans when the levies broke that they are not telling you about? American civilization fell. Under that disaster what were people became packs and tribes eating each other. In general, in large scale, the monster hiding there, in all of those people, was revealed. People did inhuman things to each other (thank you MTV), and its being supressed (thank you CNN). That monster didnt just appear, it was there all along. A monster like it might live in your neighborhood, or even in your house.
If its a real monster, is it right to kill it?
2006-09-02 15:29:46 · answer #3 · answered by Curly 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A simple answer to a not-so-simple question: a right intention NEVER justifies a wrong action.
Even if this is just hypothetical, a person who would go through with the abortion might indeed save millions of Jews and Poles, but would still have to pay for his or her action in the next life.
2006-09-02 16:11:07 · answer #4 · answered by STILL standing 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that psychics-REAL psychics-are given a gift from God to foresee the future, past, or probability of things. It is hard to say whether or not I would kill my unborn child. But if the message was strong enough, and hypothetically speaking, yes I would. Hitler did believe he was doing God's work, he believed it with all his heart and soul.
And to those who said they wouldn't, what if God sent a vision saying your unborn child was the Antichrist? Then what?
Makes a difficult circumstance.
2006-09-02 15:21:42 · answer #5 · answered by Agent Double EL 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In that scenario I would.
In real life I don't call myself either pro-life or pro-choice - it is not just a simple black and white issue. One would like to think that with education the number of abortions would go down due to less women who for whatever reason cannot have a child are getting pregnant. Then there are always medical reasons and things like rape to consider.
2006-09-02 15:21:32 · answer #6 · answered by Sage Bluestorm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The devils two greatest tools are the magnifying glass and the question mark.
This does not mean I do not believe in questioning but to come up with hypothetical situations in which the only choice is an unethical one are not the questions I feel are valuable to spend ones attention on. Hard cases make bad law.
The only reasonable reason to have an abortion is if the physical life of the mother is in imminent danger.
2006-09-02 15:10:36 · answer #7 · answered by Love of Truth 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
First off, Hitler didn't think he was doing God's will, he was just a sick psycotic monster, who didn't like Jews.
Secondly, I don't believe in psychics, but for the question I'll pretend I do, so yeah, I'd probably have an abortion if I really believed with all my heart the baby would be a monster.
It's kinda like asking christians if we could go back in time before Hitler took power, would we kill him? And yeah, I would. I know its murder, but I'd rather kill one monster and hope God would forgive me than sit back and let millions die. I think letting millions die would be a worse sin, especially if you could have stopped it.
2006-09-02 15:20:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is an older version of this question. Once you know your child is evil, would you want to go back and prevent their life? In either case the answer is no. I would just do my best. Remember the story of Oedipus? His fulfillment of prophecy only came true, because his father acted on it by trying to kill him.
2006-09-02 15:22:56 · answer #9 · answered by Woody 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ha ha... I love this question....
any way, I would have the kid, If I were able to have kids.... And I would support him or her fully. that would be funny. But, Regardless of how funny it may be.... God would have a purpose for that "hitler". Just remember, God works in strange ways sometimes... Why can't all people have questions like these?
2006-09-02 15:16:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋