The Right To Live or the Right to Die?
Sunday, 16. August 2009, 00:09:19
Recently, on another list that I got suckered onto (I know, nobody put a gun to my head 
), the assertion was made that there is no such thing as a right to life. Now, this makes a certain amount of sense, it has a certain apologetic value, for those defending abortion rights (or as I like to call it, the pro-baby-murdering faction), but the statement is truly an astounding one, so I was on it like flies to honey. Essentially, the logical conclusion is that there is no value to life at all if there is no right to life. Eventually, I asked this question: "Is it therefore okay for someone to kill you and steal your stuff?" Now, that seems a pretty straightforward question to me, but none of the skeptics on the list, to this point, has answered it. They want to deflect, to define what we mean by "kill" and "steal," or to bring up other issues, such as war, or the fact that God ordered "genocide." But no direct answer to the question itself, and I can see why. If the answer is "yes," then they put themselves in a very uncomfortable position. If they say "no," then they are effectively conceding that some version of a "right to life" does in fact exist.
Of course, these same skeptics and liberals belie their own moral relativity by make moral judgments all the time...
), the assertion was made that there is no such thing as a right to life. Now, this makes a certain amount of sense, it has a certain apologetic value, for those defending abortion rights (or as I like to call it, the pro-baby-murdering faction), but the statement is truly an astounding one, so I was on it like flies to honey. Essentially, the logical conclusion is that there is no value to life at all if there is no right to life. Eventually, I asked this question: "Is it therefore okay for someone to kill you and steal your stuff?" Now, that seems a pretty straightforward question to me, but none of the skeptics on the list, to this point, has answered it. They want to deflect, to define what we mean by "kill" and "steal," or to bring up other issues, such as war, or the fact that God ordered "genocide." But no direct answer to the question itself, and I can see why. If the answer is "yes," then they put themselves in a very uncomfortable position. If they say "no," then they are effectively conceding that some version of a "right to life" does in fact exist.Of course, these same skeptics and liberals belie their own moral relativity by make moral judgments all the time...
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