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Originally Posted by Stompy
I think what a lot of people (in general) don't understand is that there really is NO right/wrong. I'm pro-choice and at the same time, I can totally understand why someone who is pro-life thinks they way they do.
The key thing here is that people need to not force their beliefs upon others and live with tolerance of what the other side does. You can keep your belief and do you part my not partcipating in the thing you are against, but by all means, don't look down upon others who believe or think differently.
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Nice idea, I don't believe it myself, but it's irrelevant for two reasons.
One, you kinda killed the basis for your 'key thing' when you went ahead and declared that there "really is NO right/wrong". There's no right choice between tolerance and intolerance, it's just personal preference.
Two, I'm betting that you're perfectly willing to force your beliefs on others in a great number of cases. I'll name an extreme case: torturing innocent babies for fun. And for another extreme: infanticide. Killing children in, say, their first year of life outside the womb. Am I right, or would you favor tolerance in these cases?
So then unless you're willing to tolerate fascism or infanticide, it goes back to the main point of discussion: is abortion similar enough to things that shouldn't be tolerated to be itself an intolerable act?