Learn the difference between "Killing people because letting them live is too expensive is evil" and "everyone deserves a free ride at their neighbor's expense".
LOL!
There is no difference.
Really? There's no difference? Seriously? So you're telling me that you are SUCH a sucking parasite on society and so attuned to the idea that everyone around you owes you something just for adding your wonderfulness to their world that you would blame your neighbor for your child's death from polio because he didn't pay for the vaccination just as much as you would for him running that child over with his car? That's actually the position you want to advocate?
A child can just as easily die of an illness once they're born, but you don't seem to care much about that. In fact, it would appear that a collection of non-sentient cells has more of a right to live than anyone already born and aware of their suffering and death.
Big difference between caring about something and seeing it as something I personally or the government using my tax money should be responsible for. I care about children starving in Africa, but that doesn't mean I'm planning to fly over there with the contents of my pantry, or that I think the US government should bring them all here and give them welfare checks.
As for non-sentient cells having "more of a right to live", YOU'RE here. You might not want to attack the legal and moral supports for THAT very much.
As it happens, protecting unborn babies from being deliberately killed is not affording them MORE rights than anyone. It is simply affording them the SAME rights as other humans, since in case you hadn't noticed, the government protects YOU from the same damn thing. And it doesn't make me feel compelled to support YOUR lazy ass, either.
This would require you to have the brain wattage to understand the difference between "protection from killing" and "rewarding you for existing", though.
What it really boils down to is that you want to use the government to enforce your particular morality, but you denounce the idea of government enforcing a morality you disagree with. Thus, there appears to be no immorality in allowing living, breathing, self-aware folks to die due to lack of health care, but it is highly immoral to kill a collection of non-sentient cells.
Yes, you silly *****, I DO want to use the government to enforce morality. EVERYONE wants to use the government to enforce moral behavior, because that's what the purpose of laws IS. Just because you don't happen to hold the same morals that I do doesn't change that fact. I realize that the laws you favor don't enforce a particularly HIGH standard of moral behavior, but they are nevertheless doing the exact same thing.
No, there is no immorality in expecting living, breathing, self-aware folks to provide for themselves and their families instead of whining and sniveling about how someone else owes it to them to play nursemaid throughout their unproductive drone lives. You mistake childish sentimentality for morals.
In fact, it calls into question the idea of morality altogether. If you wish to compare another poster with Hitler, allow me to further the metaphor. Your idea is akin to saying, "Well, it was evil for Hitler to put those people in gas chambers. He should have had them all shot, instead."
Only to someone who dislikes morals to begin with because they're a barrier to living a completely selfish, self-absorbed existence guilt-free. For those who understand and respect the purpose and value of morals, NOTHING calls them into question.
Well, I have allowed you to TRY to further the metaphor, and you have failed miserably. I am no more killing people by refusing to buy them health insurance than I am starving YOU to death because I haven't purchased you groceries . . . although I suspect I might have by way of food stamps. If you truly believe there is a parallel between shooting you in the head and declining to support you financially, then you make a compelling argument in favor of the former.
In other words, it's not the actual death that you abhor, but the fact that it's an abortion.
No, dumbshit. I don't abhor death in general, because it's a natural part of life and happens to everyone. What I abhor is DELIBERATELY KILLING PEOPLE. Not just in abortions, but in any form. I ALSO abhor parents beating their children to death, and pedophiles kidnapping and murdering children, and people running red lights and hitting them as they ride their bikes, and psychopaths shooting up schools because they want to be on TV. And when you get right down to it, I also abhor the deliberate killing of innocent human beings who are not children, but I'll admit to having a special revulsion for anyone who wants to believe that helpless children are disposable to their "convenience".
Nothing you say is going to give you the moral high ground with that position, and nothing you say is going to make me feel guilty for spitting on you and people like you. If you were hoping to be convincing with the "you mean, cruel, horrible person", I'm still ahead on points just because I don't applaud the deaths of millions of babies a year.
