re: #739 LotharBot

If we lived in a society where violinists regularly ended up grafted onto people’s organs, I suspect the issue would be just as contentious as abortion. There would be those who’d say you have every right to pull the plug, those who’d say only if you were dragged to the violin concert against your will, those who’d say only if it’s a danger to your health, those who’d say only if he had a poor quality of violin, and those who’d say the law should protect all violinists. IMO, the only thing you accomplish by making it about violinists is you add a bit of surrealism.

Because we as a society are stupid about organ donation. (Apologies for my off-the-cuff use of the “R” word when I said this last.)

Here is the problem with your position as I see it.

It all comes down to being murder or not. Because I don’t care to discuss with you if abortion is moral I want to know if we can agree that it is inarguably legal even if we assume operation RESCUE or whoever is right and that a fetus deserves the same rights as a human being.

If you aren’t willing to say that unhooking the violinist is murder then all I need to prove to make abortion completely justifiable even if you consider a fetus to have all the rights a human being does.

Do you want to go down that path?

If you are willing to say that its murder then it opens up another can of worms…

If its murder to refuse your organs to someone who needs them to live, then is it murder to refuse to let someone who would freeze to death outside come into your house? You’ve got a big home surely there is room for one more for just a night…..

Yes it would be very nice of you to let him into your home, but how can we ever really “own” anything, be it our internal organs or our property if we must be willing to share it with those who need it in order to live?

If we’re driving down the road in the desert and we come across a hitchhiker who claims he’ll die out there in the desert unless we give him a ride back to civilization in our car? Is it murder if we refuse to let him into our backseat?

Do you want to go down that path?

If there’s a third path that you choose please enlighten me to it.