this is a generalization, i know. but i have noticed that conservative places like the midwest, for example, are against abortion (think the dakotas) yet they support meat eating. and in other parts of the world, vegetarians who are mostly liberals have abortions. arent both meat eating and abortions murder? sure, abortions are aborted fetuses of humans, so they would take precedence in the human mind as being the most important. but shouldnt we have compassions to animals too? maybe someone can explain to me why abortions are wrong? i feel they are wrong because they are murder. but is there something else people are feeling, because these very same people are eating animals? please only serious replies. thank you.
2007-02-07 06:41:01 · 8 answers · asked by wcarolinew 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i just wanted to say, it is a sincere question not meant to attack anyone. i wonder why the question is so offensive to some??
2007-02-07 06:55:59 · update #1
this is a question for both sides. i show no preference in my question. it does seem like a hypsocrisy as one person put it. its just something i was wondering about, but i do not mean to attack people niecessarily. it is honestly something that does not make sense to me.
2007-02-07 06:57:48 · update #2
What I think is funny, is lifers who eat eggs!
Nothin tastier than a Western Chicken Abortion Omelet!
2007-02-07 06:45:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a scientist, but as I know it, the aborted fetus is much less a baby then we tend to think. It is merely a group of cells. If we cared so much for the wellbeing of a group of a few hundred cells (just a speck) then why do we treat cancerous masses? I am a vegetarian and I am pro-choice. I don;t consider myself a hypocrite, actually it is the other way around. How can a pro-"lifer" support the murder of animals, and we're talking about 100 hundred animals a year (according to p.e.t.a.), but spend so much effort into protesting the destruction of a mass of cells? I also find it ironic that anti-abortionists call themselves "pro-lifers", as if I am "pro-death" This play on words can really mislead somebody. I don't eat animals because, to me, every human is guilty of something at some time, but animals truly are innocent, and I don't think they deserve the treatment or the murder humans induce.
2007-02-07 14:50:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What do you do about the mosquito sucking blood out of your arm ? If killing a fetus is murder, killing a meat animal is murder, then what is killing the mosquito called ?
We could go farther and say that the germs eating our sick bodies shouldn't be murdered. Throw that medicine away.
The bug walking across your rug values his life just as much as you value yours. We're all just part of nature. One life is not more important than another except in the minds of the individuals, people, animals, fish, insects, disease germs. Each values his life above all the others.
People have the means of treating all the rest in whichever way suits them. Does that make it right ? You decide.
2007-02-07 14:59:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No this is not a generality. It is a departure from rationality. Meat eating is not murder. Cannibalism is. Incidentally, does taking an antibiotic to cure an infection constitute mass murder? You are slaughtering all those poor little bacteria.
2007-02-07 15:17:24 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no cause effect relationship between the two, but abortion involves the life of a human baby, big difference then the life of an animal such as a cow or fish
2007-02-07 14:54:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe that any human being has the right to cause suffering to any other living thing. Key word: suffering. If an animal can be slaughtered humanely, fine. If a clump of cells isn't going to suffer, fine. If you make it a deprivation of life issue, you have to think about every flower you pick, every ant you step on, every bacteria you kill when you disinfect your kitchen. It's impossible not to deprive other living things of life.
2007-02-07 14:48:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So you're saying why do people eat meat whatever their opinion is about abortion?
Well you've answered your question. It has no impact - its totally irrelevent.
Serious replies only? To say that you should have asked a less stupid question.
2007-02-07 14:44:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You've asked why do pro-choice and anti-choice people both eat meat...I do not know the answer.
2007-02-07 14:45:59 · answer #8 · answered by MishMash [I am not one of your fans] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋