erico
2011-12-23 14:15:29
Thank you, scragsma. Your description comports exactly with what I learned in moral theology class at The Catholic University of America. The principle of double effect.
How does this bastardized bumper sticker analogy hold up to the argument that it’s nobody’s business? That’s one argument I’m hearing from commenters on this thread.
Slavery: If you don’t like it don’t own one.
Thinking in terms of both slaves and unborn babies as “persons” is problematic. It becomes important to define both as less than persons, namely 4/5ths of a person or a person after the second trimester or after birth or somesuch. Just a zygote, nothing to see here, move along. From one complicated bag of water to another.
