If there was a way to know before a baby was born that they were going to grow up to be a mass murderer, would it be okay to abort the baby to save the other lives?
2007-06-23 07:52:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I'm not saying I'm pro-life or pro-choice. I read a story in one of Paul Harvey's old books and it got me to thinking.
2007-06-23 07:57:05 · update #1
I am personally pro choice. That being it is the choice of the woman and not societies. With that said personally I do not wish that any abortions every occur. The question is the woman's and she must grow from this process. On death penalty I am against it for it is not a personal decision at any level. It is purely society take a life to equal out injustices. I supply this as pure background.
So now to the question. Does knowing future events change my personal view? Does the lose of one serve a better benefit than the foreseen lose of many? I would still have to say no. Each soul is born to live out a purpose. It may be to work through karma of past lives or to work out the plans of God. While I may intercede with the sharing of knowledge or offering prayers, it is not my right to interfere with the birth or passing of a soul.
2007-06-27 15:43:22 · answer #1 · answered by islandsigncompany 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not for the death penalty at all.
To answer your question... No.
The reason is because while you may know for sure that the baby will grow up to be a mass murderer you do not know what will happen when you abort this baby. By aborting the baby because of the belief that they will be a mass murderer you may have saved a number of lives but you also changed fact that the baby was gona kill some people and thus you have no clue what the effect of that baby not killing thouse people is.
Basicaly if you act on any information about the future thinking you are doing the world a favor you really need to rethink that move. Its not that the move isnt or is gona cause net good to happen. Its the fact that you just dont know for sure if it will or not. If you act thinking you know what the out come of your act is you are either God or a fool imo. So your best action is to be yourself instead of listening to someone else and doing what they say is best.
2007-06-23 15:28:58 · answer #2 · answered by magpiesmn 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't that an oxymoron? Human life is human life--and that does NOT include an unborn collection of cells. That applies to here and now, living and breathing people. If we could go back and do something about those people who are now on death row for killing people, we could abort them before they're unleashed on the world? That requires believing that there is a "murder" gene--which there may well be, but it hasn't been found yet--and that requires believing that babies are evil. Well, since evil and good are socially ascribed and learned concepts, it would be pretty hard to buy that a baby has learned and chosen a particular path of evilness. It would be nice though--then we could develop an in-vitro process for eliminating evilness.
Death row inmates are there for many reasons, not the least of which is an inequitable justice system. But why do people pursue crime? How we get from baby to murderer? In virtually every instance, murderers have had traumatic childhoods. Poverty is often a factor. Sexual abuse is often a factor. There are a lot of experiental factors that come into play, but an evil gene is not one of them.
2007-06-23 15:33:39 · answer #3 · answered by teeleecee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, if you are truely pro-life it would never ever be okay to abort (i should say kill) a baby no matter what. I know that your saying "if" there was a way to know what the baby would grow up to be but there is no way to find that out. You could always raise the baby in a good, friendly environment so that it would grow up to be a good person and not a mass murderer because you can always prevent things from happening.
2007-06-23 15:01:13 · answer #4 · answered by Angela 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A baby doesn't grow up with a "murder" gene. Early childhood are very important in determining these factors. So, no. I imagine that when we have this technology, we'll also have a time machine so if anything, the family should go back in time & give the baby a better life w/out whatever experiance it had that would make him a murderer.
2007-06-23 15:03:26 · answer #5 · answered by judy bo-booty 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From an outside perspective, I think that the issue is taking the life of an innocent versus taking the life of a non-innocent.
If there was a way to know that a fetus would definitely be a mass murderer, then we are living in a world of science fiction, so the answer to that question is completely irrelevant. Luckily, people aren't born murderers, they choose murder.
2007-06-23 15:00:23 · answer #6 · answered by HP Wombat 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
opinions and philosophy. millions out there. we probably have less killers and bad people in general because of abortion but at the same time we may have killed the potential scientist or doctor, politician who might have made a difference in the world.
2007-06-23 15:01:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
anyone pro-life and for the death penalty is a hypocrit!!
2007-06-23 14:56:10 · answer #8 · answered by masharocks91 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
why would you want to kill a baby o_O
*so disturbing*
2007-06-23 14:59:15 · answer #9 · answered by HopeH 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋