re: #718 Ian MacGregor

re: 678 ShanghaiEd.

I’m not for banning bad behavior. No one can force someone to be good, and no one is so clean they can condemn another person. If I do good, I don’t want it to be because I didn’t have the choice to do bad. I want it to be because I on my own or with God’s help chose to do good. [Atheists can do as much good as the most devout.]

If by doing bad one enslaves himself then in choosing to do bad, you have given up your freedom. Freedom is the ability to choose to do good. Choosing to do bad is a false freedom which leads to slavery.

I agree there is the problem of who decides what is good. Unless were insane or without any moral compass whatsoever, I doubt there is that much disagreement over what is good.

Even on this topic, most would agree that saving the mother’s life is good and taking the life of an unborn child is not. Also I think given a choice between the two, most would choose to save the mother.

We do not live in a perfect world, or even a theoretically perfectable one, so, unfortunately, sometimes our life choices come down to what we deem to be least worst for us in particular situations. And such choices should be made by those who are both capable of making choices and who must suffer the consequences of those choices, regardless of which choices they make.

In the case of abortion, that would be the woman carrying the pregnancy.