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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
Telling other people that their belief which says that the abortion of a fetus in the first trimester is tantamount to the murder of an 18 year old is an appeal to ridicule which is only going to make people mad because you're effectively calling them a murderer. Now, granted, that's basically what pro-life people are saying anyway, but it's a pretty nasty way to go about making that point.
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I've been ridiculed before, I've got a thick enough skin. I don't see any point in sugar coating my conversations about abortion any more than I do about the death penalty. Why allow all of the weight of the situation to be filtered away? From my perspective, I wouldn't coddle someone's feelings if we were talking about killing anyone, be they born or not, because murder as a perceptual concept is partially emotional response. To deny that is to deny what murder means.