Originally posted by Mad Johnny:
Ok, then stay a hypocrite. That's fine by me. Sperm + Egg = child, rape or not. Its the same. There are no such grey areas, everything can be defined in black and white. Thank You Hegel.
Don't want the child? Tough, it wants to live just like you do.
If a fetus in a womb was able to make that conscious decision about "wanting to live" then I'd agree with you and be 100% anti-abortion.
Looking at everything in black or white terms
only makes no sense to me, Hegel notwithstanding (after all, he is not the final authority on anything, altho you certainly may subscribe to to his philosophical theorizing - which is all that philosophy is, anyway - if you wish).
Should every rapist have his "stuff" cut off?
How about those guilty of statuatory rape? A 17 year-old boy who "rapes" his 15 year old-girlfriend, say?
A female who rapes a male? Not unheard of. What do we do with her "stuff"?
And I'm no hypocrite - at least when it comes to the abortion-death penalty analogy.
As I said, I favor both in principle but not in practice.
If that makes someone a hypcrite in your eyes, I could probably give you loads of examples that make almost everyone a hypocrite to some degree or another.
