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I think that you're just trying to backdoor us back into the abortion debate, which has it's own separate, active thread that you've already posted in - and mentioned that you've posted in.
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I agree - reading this the same arguments are stated as in the abortion thread, nothing new really.
You might like to think that there are universal morals, that some aspect of humanity involves realising right from wrong but it simply isn't so.
As long as humanity has been around we have been murdering, thieving, raping and torturing eachother in the name of numerous things gain, war, religion, honour. Do any of these reasons change the fact that someone has died, that they won't have the chance to live their life and see their loved ones again?
So right and wrong are obviously for some flexible ideas - I for one consider it wrong to beat up and old man and steal his wallet, this happened roughly a month ago in my city.
One of the scariest movies I have ever seen involved a mentally handicapped woman who lived with her husband out of town - he was injured and she thought she would 'fix' him. There was an image of her in the kitchen with a cleaver and then a shot of the bench covered in bloody cooking implements - she thought she was doing the right thing. That sense of her rightness (in her eyes) was what terrified me.
Does it really then matter if you say something is right or wrong? People are going to do it anyway, and probably think they're right. Accept that as fact and move on.