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Originally posted by bilmore
But the biggest and most important of these truths is that human life is very important, and that the biggest wrong we can do is to kill a person.
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But you left out the part where it is OK to kill a human who is in his or her third trimester of gestation.
Bilmore, your natural law-esque explanation would bar someone from killing in self-defense so refine it to allow killing in self-defense so that it will make sense. However, when you do that, you are now making this distinction of innocent vs. guilty life. Once you do, the death penalty doesn't go against the principle that it is innocent human life that is to be protected. Abortion, though, violates that principle.
As for your fry his ass comment, you left out that this universal truth has always included the qualification that the human life be an innocent human life. Throughout the bulk of human history, societies have found that some acts are so heinous that the greater good was served by ending the life of those who commit these acts. It has only been in recent times that the "innocent" qualification was removed and it was all human life, however malicious and evil, was to be protected.
Funny how those who are against the death penalty are usually for abortion. You cannot kill the guilty but you can kill the innocent. You liberals have it all backwards on these issues.
