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How can so many conservatives (or pretty much all of them since they are so partisan it is ridiculous, though the liberals are too) be both pro-life and pro-gun. This just baffles me. The best I can come up with is that they have decided it is not okay to knowingly kill someone who hasn't had a chance at life, but when you accidentally kill someone who has established a life (whether good or bad) then it isn't really a big deal. I mean, is this right, or am I just missing something?
How can so many conservatives (or pretty much all of them since they are so partisan it is ridiculous, though the liberals are too) be both pro-life and pro-gun. This just baffles me. The best I can come up with is that they have decided it is not okay to knowingly kill someone who hasn't had a chance at life, but when you accidentally kill someone who has established a life (whether good or bad) then it isn't really a big deal. I mean, is this right, or am I just missing something?
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
I don't understand many things about Conservatives but one thing baffles me more than most.
- 12/08/2013 05:39:06 AM
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- 19/08/2013 04:12:14 PM
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I think you're confusing "pro life" with "anti killing."
- 12/08/2013 07:34:14 AM
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in addition...
So abortion is OK to save a pregnant womans life then?
- 13/08/2013 03:35:58 AM
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It sounds like you have a very specific view of what each position constitutes.
- 13/08/2013 05:20:29 AM
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Just going by party platforms, candidate/officeholder statements and proposed/enacted law.
- 13/08/2013 07:58:49 AM
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Re: It sounds like you have a very specific view of what each position constitutes.
- 14/08/2013 01:17:09 PM
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For what it is worth, you and I are not so far apart on abortion.
- 14/08/2013 03:22:07 PM
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Re: So abortion is OK to save a pregnant womans life then?
- 14/08/2013 12:50:07 PM
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"Love your brother as you love yourself" is about self-improvement?
- 14/08/2013 02:02:22 PM
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Conversely, how can liberals be pro-abortion but anti-death penalty?
- 12/08/2013 12:28:24 PM
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In my case, because of the areas certainty exists and those where it is impossible.
- 13/08/2013 04:14:15 AM
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Re: In my case, because of the areas certainty exists and those where it is impossible.
- 13/08/2013 02:01:51 PM
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That is a very good point, too, one that had never occurred to me.
- 13/08/2013 06:57:34 PM
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I'm baffled you find it bizarre honestly
- 12/08/2013 04:14:01 PM
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So abortion is OK to save a pregnant womans life? Prevent her maiming? A childs lifelong torment?
- 13/08/2013 05:00:06 AM
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Joel, I'm going to strongly suggest you don't try to discuss anything political with me
- 13/08/2013 06:31:02 AM
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"...all of this operates on a principle that says that you do not take life without a good cause..."
- 13/08/2013 08:10:28 AM
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You are still missing the point, but at least you're trying
- 13/08/2013 06:48:34 PM
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Abortion is "not germane" to asking how one can reconcile opposing abortion while supporting guns?
- 14/08/2013 12:48:21 AM
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Discussing Supreme Court rulings on abortion in detail is not *NM*
- 14/08/2013 05:08:06 AM
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Not in detail, just in both citing "good cause," yet interpreting it VERY differently.
- 14/08/2013 05:43:50 AM
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This is mostly a US Christian Conservative obsession...not conservatism in general. *NM*
- 12/08/2013 04:39:15 PM
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Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked, preserve me from the violent man
- 13/08/2013 03:20:24 PM
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My biggest problem with that from a religious perspective is preempting the chance to repent.
- 14/08/2013 01:39:57 AM
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