Holland to Allow Baby Euthanasia

[mont974x4]

Moral relativism, maybe?

[verklingen]

Moral relativism, maybe?

Okay, look. If you don't get it after this, you never will.

Consider this group: republicans. They are for sending our soldiers out to die for nothing, for gun rights, but seek to protect unborn babies by outlawing abortion. Does this seem like a conflict of interest?

Now, the situation is no different in Holland. They are for individual freedoms (drug use, abortion, etc.), but also for killing babies (even when outside the womb). Does this seem like a conflict of interest?

Now is this moral relativism, or calling people out on their inconsistancies?

How does this not make sense? Am I speaking a different language?

[Hollandica]

Stuff like this pisses me off. How can you compare nazi ideas to abortion??? Nazis killed because they believed in the ubermensch and untermensch. Abortion is nowhere near these ideas. If you dont know what I'm talking about look up uber- and untermensch in a dictionary or wahtever.

Comparing abortion with nazism is just insulting.

[mont974x4]

Hollandica, I guess it depends on the reasons? The Nazi's killed those they deamed as socially inferior or unwanted. I think some on the pro-abortion side may think the same way. Both ideas stem from a belief of what they think qualifies as human and what constitutes as "life".

Verklingen, if I understand you correctly, you're looking to the underlying moral principle with which people base their decisions regarding a specific situation or ideal. I don't think any of your examples show a conflict of interest but may show another type of conflict. Compare one type of apple to another, say killing for justice using the death penalty and killing for another reason with abortion. I believe the death penalty is just but don't beleive abortion is just. One involves a known criminal that has been tried and convicted according to the laws of the land ,the other involves the most innocent and helpless of society. The value of human life demands we protect those that are helpess but it also demands justice against those who take another life.

I don't think you can compare gun rights to abortion or infanticide. My moral view of apples can not be applied to oranges.