Hypothetically, lets say they invented a gun that if you fired it at someone, the bullet would lock on to that person in the present, but then travel back through time and find the same person when he/she was still in the womb. It would then "abort" that fetus during the first few weeks of pregnancy. The parents wouldn't have even known yet, so they would've been oblivious to what happened.
My question is this. If abortion is legal and ethical then would this weapon be a legal way to murder someone? Lets say a husband catches his wife cheating on him, so he uses this weapon on her making it so she never existed. Would that be wrong?
2006-12-11 05:35:33 · 18 answers · asked by Byakuya 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Yes I'm pro-life if you haven't guessed. This question might seem completely random and pointless, but I'm trying to make people identify with aborted babies and think "how would I like it if that happened to me?"
Obviously this is just science-fiction, but I thought maybe it would be a way to get people to think about abortion from a different perspective. When a baby is aborted, you take away that child's future.
2006-12-11 05:58:34 · update #1
What kind of stupid question is this. You're trying to make a point that abortion is murder by using an imaginary bullet and time travel to subvert murder laws? What about an imaginary bullet that would go back and make your dad sterile for that month so that he couldn't ejaculate. That person would be wiped out of existence; would THAT be murder?
Use logic to make your anti-choice arguments (there are plenty of facts and figures) you don't have to go to bad Sylvester Stalone movies to make this point.
2006-12-11 05:46:18 · answer #1 · answered by Perdendosi 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is about as bizarre an anti-rights campaigner has come up with in a long time. By posing some completely nonsensical science fantasy situation you hope to gain what exactly?
OK, so the bullet goes back and kills the baby (already considered a crime by the way - try shooting a pregnant woman and see what the law does to you). So then that person doesn't exist, and every interaction that they would have had changes, sometimes for the better, sometimes for worse. The ripples caused by your concept are well-examined in various novels. Plus you'll set up a paradox - how could the baby be killed by this device if the adult never existed, because then the gun couldn't have been fired at them in the first place.
A completely bizarre and useless question!
2006-12-11 06:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If someone shot me with that weapon, then I wouldn't be here to answer your delightful hypothetical question. :P
Seriously, I don't think this hypothetical is going to make anyone change their minds if they already have a strong position on the ethics of abortion. I myself am undecided & very torn by the issue. But I respect those that have opinions on this volatile issue enough not to try to change their minds.
And hypotheticals involving time travel are particularly pointless. Removing someone from existence would cause such a massive change in reality as we know it that it's pointless to consider one minor set of ramifications by themselves. Everyone that has ever known that person and/or been affected by that person would instantly change from being who they are to being someone else (possibly including the person who fired the weapon.) That kind of chaos makes ethical debates over abortion a rather minor consideration, IMHO.
2006-12-11 05:53:02 · answer #3 · answered by Dave of the Hill People 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lets just say first of all you have to much time and your sense of thinking needs to be changed and changed fast. Abortion is wrong no matter how far along in the pregnancy a woman is wrong. I can not even believe some one sit around and think of this kind of sick question. I am not going to say I am sorry for my answers to your question. You put your self out here and be prepared to get some harsh answers.
2006-12-11 05:47:11 · answer #4 · answered by iceprincess 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a very old question. It actually asks what if you went back in time and killed your grandfather when he was young.
It explores the paradox of time travel.
If you could really go back in time you could not appe=roach yourself due to upseting the laws of the Universe that have to do with matter and anti-matter.
Also. If you wanted to go back in time and change something you did that you now know was wrong, you could only do one thing as that change would upset your future time-line.
Everything would be so different thast it did not come into existance and this includes your memory.
2006-12-11 05:47:36 · answer #5 · answered by relliot462 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think that would be horrible. i know that not everyone is mother Theresa, but i think that even though we have all done things that we are not proud of the answer is not to abort them. everyone is entitled to life. murder is horrible, but to not know life is worse. the mothers body would probably get pretty messed up too. i think that would destroy the human race! even if something like that were invented i think that the government would not let something like that be produced in the united states and i hope not anywhere else either
where did you come up with that.
2006-12-11 05:43:31 · answer #6 · answered by mel2430 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically(if it was possible) they would not be any evidence of crime and you will end up not committing the act anyway
in your scenario
the wive would not have been born, thus the husband would not have married her and found her cheating and decided to "kill her"
as the first person answered, the paradoxes might cause chaos on the time continuum
2006-12-11 05:42:15 · answer #7 · answered by Fabperson 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree that the disruption in the timeline would ultimately kill us all, or, at least, cause such changes in the world that the 'abortion gun' itself wouldn't have been invented in the first place.
2006-12-11 05:39:14 · answer #8 · answered by dingobluefoot 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it' s forbidddened legal abortion, abortion doesnot desappear but it will convert into a worse illegal market
2006-12-11 05:39:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes, first of all eliminate one person and you change the world. Second, Murder is murder.
2006-12-11 05:44:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋