Originally Posted by BIG JIM MERRILEES
OK Is it moral to insist that others cannot have abortions just because it does not please you? More important how can it be morally wrong to have an abortion but morally right to put someone to death in a gas chamber or by lethal injection or any other kind of capital punishment. If ALL life is so precious that every fetus regardless of circumstances has to be saved why do you have capital punishment where you kill fully developed humans?....I can never get my head around that huge piece of hypocrisy and so far nobody has replied to this statement despie me mentioning this several times in previous posts. I assume that there is no defence to what I see clearly as double standards and hypocrisy. If everyone has different ideas and standards of morality how do you know that your moral standards are any better than someone else. So how can you inflict your will on others who do not believe as you do.


There are double standards and much hypocrisy, Jim, I don't think anyone could deny that!

Maybe different people have different ideas about what democracy is. You would probably agree with me that giving people two extreme choices (abortion legal/abortion illegal) is not really really giving them a good choice. In the case of our examples with the vain woman vs the raped woman being newly pregnant, this is clear.

But we can't replace a democracy, albeit a flawed one, with an anarchy? can we?

And how much should an individual do? Should we all become activists? Phil Ochs tried to write topical songs, thinking that he was doing his bit, and it killed him.

I don't want to be an activist, nor do I want to write topical songs, LOL...does that make me bad?

BUT...Aren't I a hypocrite for pointing out how bad the system is, and then sitting back and doing nothing?

I think it's hard to see clearly how messed up things are, and to know how helpless it is trying to change anything, except little things, at the local level, as they "fall into our lap" --but that's what "changing things" amounts to, for most of us.

I sympathize with you, cuz I think your passion comes from a good place, that you might want to change things, and feel how futile it is...

But maybe you and I will change things, one day...just be yourself, and be ready, one day a situation may present itself, and you will be able to make a change, for the good, and then there will be a little less hypocrisy in the world..., maybe we already are...making changes...in little ways that we can't even see...

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 04/14/12 11:23 PM.
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice

-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)
from the song "Songs of Love"
from the album "Casanova" (1996)