I find capital punishment to be barbaric. I am personally opposed to abortion, but don't feel my view should be imposed upon others or that the government should be involved in something so personal. I struggle with the fact that I am willing to stand up for basic human rights of murderers and child-molesters, but would allow abortions to continue to those who seek them.
2007-11-02 18:25:55 · 18 answers · asked by Big Red Ten 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I appreciate the passion in many of your answers. To be more specific, it seems half of the people out there believe life starts at conception (my view), and half believe it is at some later point. It seems there is no universally accepted definition of "life". So, without consensus, I believe the government ought not be involved or err on the side of respecting the privacy of those who think differently than me, especially when it's not exactly a small minority that disagree with my personal definition. However, I think everyone would agree that all murderers and child-molesters are indeed "alive". No matter how heinous their crimes and how much we hate them, there is consensus that they are indeed alive, and that to kill them is cruel and unusual.
Thanks for your responses...
2007-11-02 18:50:02 · update #1
I think everyone here is pretty much on the ball for the most part. You are comparing the life of an unborn child (which you admit is started at conception) and the lives of human monsters who have taken the lives of others and are saying that the latter is worth more than the former.
Your argument about abortion being permitted is a cowardly one as well. Can you imagine what would happen to a presidential candidate, when asked about whether or not slavery should be illegal, if he said "I am personally opposed to slavery, but I don't want to impose that belief on others." He'd be out on his a.s.s tomorrow. So man up or come up with a better excuse plz.
2007-11-02 19:49:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've got the opposite struggle that most people have. Most anti-abortion folks say "how can you support the death penalty while being against abortion," as if there were no difference between a murderer and an unborn child.
2007-11-03 01:32:32 · answer #2 · answered by A Plague on your houses 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In recent years the dialogue on the death penalty has focused on its implementation and effectiveness . From these perspectives, abortion and capital punishment are are separate issues. But your question is a good one and I suspect your struggle is shared by many people on both sides of these issues.
2007-11-03 11:01:00 · answer #3 · answered by Susan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think in most cases is has to do with the idea that an unborn child has done nothing whatsoever to deserve being terminated/killed. Whereas someone who has received the death penalty has been found guilty by a jury of his or her peers in a court of law, generally of a vile and inhumanely cruel crime.
Oh...wait. You're supporting the right to kill the baby and to let the vicious killer go free. Sorry. Was a little confused.
2007-11-03 01:34:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Since a fetus is only a potential human life there is no conflict. Choice is a basic human right. Those who feel it's murder are persuaded to think that by their religious views for the most part and we are all free to choose our religion and should feel free to act in our own lives the way we feel is right for us.
2007-11-03 01:34:30 · answer #5 · answered by MissWong 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I remember a question about abortion once on YA and the pro-abortionists came out of the woodwork. They said the questioner should have been 'aborted', angrily pointed out how inconvenient these 'fetuses' were as if they were talking about trash and how these 'fetuses' shouldn't exist if they have to grow up in orphanages.
I realize now there's a certain kind of person who condones abortion. It's about ones personality.
**It was a small minority who disagreed with Nazi experiments on twins.
2007-11-03 01:36:19 · answer #6 · answered by pgb 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Let's see. We are comparing the ultimate punishment of a criminal to the state sanctioned murder of an innocent being.
How do you feel about standing up for the rights of the murdered or is the concept to difficult for you do grasp?
I don't support capital punishment, but I find the liberal comparisons of abortion to capital punishment to be absurd; to put in mildly. What crime is the fetus guilty of to justify such a violent manner of death?
2007-11-03 01:30:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
so if a guy bruttally murdered five children, then raped a teenage girl...he shoulndt get the death penalty. ok thats fine, i can live with that. but should that girl be forced to have that child of the man who raped her because abortions are illegal? i know its not the most common scenario but it does happen.
2007-11-03 01:32:26 · answer #8 · answered by Flash Funk 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No not at all. Unborn children have done nothing to warrant their lives being terminated. It is murder. So is executing the likes of Ted Bundy. However, in regards to murder it is justifiable homicide.
2007-11-03 02:26:39 · answer #9 · answered by coho51 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your circular logic has a hole in it. Is there a conflict being pro life and pro death penalty, see how easy that was.
2007-11-03 01:31:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋