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Is like saying...'yes, I am not racist but I just don't like black people.'

2007-05-31 06:57:49 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Politics

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It is sort of crazy isn't it? There has to be a punishment for heinous crimes and death is a good deterrent. But stem cell research has gotten a lot of bad information sent out. I think we need to know more about it and were the stem cells actually come from. The news has given out conflicting information and someone needs to make it clear.

2007-05-31 07:05:47 · answer #1 · answered by oldhag 5 · 1 0

Conservatives oppose embryonic stem cell research because:
1. It requires an aborted embryo
2. The research, conducted by researchers being funded by grants, has never produced any results that have benefited anyone. Absolutely none. Embryonic stem cell research is a huge scam.

Conservatives do support adult stem cell research, which is conducted by doctors and has provided cures for numerous ailments. It involves real science.

We support the death penalty in order to save future victims from those people who have already shown a propensity to kill and rape.

Nothing complicated at all.

2007-05-31 07:07:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Some conservatives of a religious bent see any potential human life as morally equivalent to an actual human life - thus, they are opposed to stem cell research (since the blastocysts the cells are harvested from /could/ be implanted and carried to term), abortion, even contraception or other forms of non-reproductive sexual activity. Since they value innocent life, they also believe that those who taken innocent lives should be punished as harshly as possible - to serve as a deterent, to do 'justice,' and to protect potential future victims - thus the death penalty for murderers..

So, it's more like saying: "I'm not racist, but I dislike the kind of people who would join the KKK."


Not everyone who's for the death penalty opposes stem cell research, though. I'm a strong proponent of both, for instance.

2007-05-31 07:05:20 · answer #3 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1 0

The death penalty punishes someone who has made a decision to hurt another person. Stem cell research can use cells from a fetus who did not have a choice and is effectively innocent. A person given the death penalty is very unlikely to be innocent.

Your analogy about racism and not liking black people is not the same thing at all.

2007-05-31 07:02:37 · answer #4 · answered by Your Best Fiend 6 · 3 1

Death Penalty = killing evil people

And, I am a conservative that is for stem cell research. And, actually, I think a lot of us are. Its just that many do not want the government to pay for it... instead let private pharmaceutical firms do it... because in the long run, they will be the ones making money off it.

2007-05-31 07:02:12 · answer #5 · answered by Dog Lover 7 · 2 1

Not all conservatives are pro-choice. I'm not. However, it does get me when pro-lifers call themselves that but yet support the death penalty. The term "pro-life" doesn't sound like they get to pick and choose which lives they are "pro" about and which lives they aren't. It sounds like it means ALL life and anything less than that sounds terribly hypocritical.

Frankly, I think they need a new term if they are only "pro innocent life." Maybe that's the one they should use: "pro innocent life" and "anti convicted of doing something evil life." I guess they haven't heard that, on occasion, an innocent is actually convicted. Y'know, like those guys in jail for 20 years who have been released because of their DNA? You can release guy who's been in prison, but you can't resurrect even an innocent after he's dead.

Sorry for the rant, but they get to me sometimes. I am a conservative, though, so as you see, generalizations don't apply.

2007-05-31 07:02:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

We are only opposed to embryonic stem cell research because you have to kill babies to get them. An unborn baby has done nothing wrong. You can do all the research you want on executed felons.

2007-05-31 07:09:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I hate to tell all these people who are going on about killing guilty people. Because of DNA evidence, do you all know how many people have been released from prison because they actually didn't do it. So your reasoning is flawed. There are plenty of people on death row or serving time in prison who didn't do it. Unless there was someone there who acutally saw that person comit the crime, these people are convicted on the preponderance of the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt. Not 100%.

2007-05-31 07:04:28 · answer #8 · answered by Spirish_1 5 · 0 1

they are hypocritical.
I can understand if you support the death penalty and think that cells are alive (i disagree but I can understand)
but when people say life is sacred and then support the death penalty there is an issue. when something is sacred, it is sacred. there is no exceptions

2007-05-31 07:32:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

They want to save all the Babies that are being aborted and kill the innocent criminals put in prison for murdering other people... They haven't got a clue in their heads what is right and wrong. I mean to think we need to cut back on abortions , WHY so we can have more pea brained kids running around on skateboards and eating PB&J... Oh please, I say abort them all.... We need to save the lives of all these murders, child molestors and mentally challenged adults in the prison system. They don't deserve to die, they deserve to be Rehabilitated and placed in homes in the middle of suburbs with lots of small children running around. They need to be placed in a job where they can blend back in with society... Murders are people too...

2007-05-31 07:04:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

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