Playing God?

Question

If playing god is so bad when killing a fetus, why is it not so bad when killing an adult by capitol punishment?

Ok ok the fetus is innocent.

What about keeping someone alive who would have died of natural causes?
Isn't that playing god? Does that not start to mess up the natural balance of natural selection? Overpopulation?

You can't try to keep everyone alive all the time. Some people have to die to maintain balance. Right?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

I'm a Christian and I don't use the "playing God" argument when approaching the issue of abortion. I only highlight that it is simply unfair to destroy another human being simply because it is convenient for us and because it is defenseless and powerless to fight back.
Aside from that, 80 percent of abortions are non-terminal, meaning that most are not needed at all. Furthermore, with the high abortion rate, one can assume that a majority of that eighty percent of fetuses aborted aren't aborted because of exigent situations, such as rape or the possibility that the mother's life is endangered. They're aborted out of purely selfish reasons, simply because someone may have made a "mistake" and wound up with the fruits of an "accident" that they want to brush under the rug.

Furthermore, your overpopulation argument is specious. Though our population is over 6 billion, what most don't know is that there is still considerable room to spare. It has been said that, if we all were given an acre of land to stay on, a good deal of the population of the United States could fit in Texas. Also, if all 58 million people living in the British Isles were to be housed in a city with fairly luxurious living space, the city would only have to be 44 miles in diameter. Overpopulation isn't as big a concern as you portray it.
So, that's it.

Answer 3

Without dark we cannot know light.
Without death we cannot know life.