To me, black and white thinking takes on the cloak of "casual, indifferent, etc.", or "blasé," if you will. The remark "Oh shit! I missed my period! I'm really *f"ed* now!" seemed off the cuff and appeared to indicate a prejudiced and surficial understanding of the issue...."blasé."
Curiously, Mike, do you believe in the soul? Do you believe in the eternal soul? Do you believe that the soul dies along with a potential life that was aborted by the mother, a potential life that could not survive independently at 6 weeks and that even nature aborts naturally at times (called miscarriages). Do you believe that it could be possible that if there is a soul, that the soul may "live" to incarnate in a different host/mother? Just food for thought. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : I draw the line with *murder* as one human willfully killing another innocent human. There's manslaughter, accidents etc.Then there is killing for food.I can admire one who observes ahimsa as going above and beyond the call of duty as a penance. From: "awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 12:15 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Debate from Hell' ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : "My blase attitudes", did I get that right? How can anything be more blase than to sweep away and destroy an innocent human life because you're not ready to be responsible for*it* yet? It's freaking murder! A women's right to murder? The Supreme Court will wake up one day, just as they did when they ruled one human can not own another or that Slaves were not 3/5ths of a human being, because "all men are created equal" under the law. That took two hundred years to get right , but it happened. Science is moving the understanding of life forward very fast. If the science of DNA can put a person in prison for life for a crime, it will save a life that is innocent of a crime. It's not her body that she kills. FYI, all person's involved in the creation of another, need to be equally responsible for that life. Yes, that presents new social problems but the first rule is do no harm to innocent life. I love your passion, Mike. I am of the belief that all lives are created equal. When I say that I mean ALL lives. Human or animal. Blasphemous? Perhaps. Maybe. Likely. To kill any thing is a kind of murder. Killing a fetus is destroying life. Butchering a terrified, bleating cow is destroying a life. Euthanizing an old and decrepit dog is destroying a life. Is life sacred? Probably. What is sacred? Anything that is created. Is allowing something to live sometimes opening the way for suffering? Yes. Is destroying a life sometimes decreasing the chances of suffering? Yes. Is it better to overdose a dangerous horse with phenyl barbital so it doesn't kill somebody merciful? Is aborting an unwanted baby the right thing to do? Is there ever the justification for causing death of a living being? It all gets so complicated. Is the death penalty ever warranted? Are unwanted, unloved, abused children happy to have been given the chance to live despite the fact they may have been conceived by rape? I can't answer this but what I do know is that human beings are given hundreds of chances to make choices every moment of every day and the freedom to make those choices must remain intact. From: "emily.mae50@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Debate from Hell' There is another issue I'd like to comment on about ignorant men thinking they know all about pregnancy and childbirth and raising children on their own with no support—particularly the ones that think they should judge, condemn, and legislate women's rights. Yes, Mike, it's the girl "who missed her period" that's at fault, right? Not the boy or man with the raging hormones who pressured her and pressured her and pressured her to give in to his desires and then left the scene.....give me a break. I'm not saying you shouldn't stand by your religious convictions, but maybe you ought to dig a little deeper into your "blasé" attitudes. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are *Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness*- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Your right to *privacy* will not stand against another person's right to Life.... much longer, religion or no religion. You will need to abolish the first amendment that grants freedom of political speech and freedom of religion first. Everyone knows that the overwhelming majority of abortions in this country are simply birth control, "Oh shit! I missed my period! I'm really *f"ed* now!" It's rarely about health or life of the mother. Fifty-three million abortions can not account for that. " "Why would I want my daughter to be *punished* with a child?" Obama's words, not mine. This is the mind set of *Me first* and to hell with what's right. It is the purest of evil and it will not stand. From: "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Debate from Hell' Whether you like it or not, abortion is legal in this country. To jeopardize the health of poor women because of your religious convictions is untenable.
