Into the Twilight Zone of Freeper Logic

[Pluvious]

Anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty.

Freedom to put the 10 Commandments up at the courthouse,
but forbidden to have a protest march in the city park.

Calling yourself a "good steward of the land," but wiping out
the last 30 years of environmental protection laws in favor of commercial interests.

Worrying about teaching abstinence to prevent aids, but ignoring
healthcare needs and poverty.

Promoting tax breaks for the rich to trickle down into new job creation,
while encouraging job outsourcing.

Claiming compassion and conservatism while forbidding any media coverage of our
returning dead heroes' remains, while simultaneously bankrupting our country
into twenty plus years of debt.

The mind boggles at how the sheeple lap it up, and defend it all with such fervor.

The rest of the world thinks we've all gone completely fucking insane.

[DemBones DemBones]

1. Explain why it's more logical to oppose the death penalty and

support abortion. The death penalty kills convicted murderers, who may be construed to deserve death, abortion kills innocent babies, who can't. Personally, I don't find either one worthy of support.

[Spinzonner]

2. I admire your consistency

but what's a 'baby' ?

BTW, to make a fine point: Murders may deserve death under a particular set of moral principles but a 'convicted murderer' being a de'jure murder is not the same as a de facto one and that raises the question as to whether the state should be empowered to take a life in the face of the non-equivalency.

[DemBones DemBones]

4. Thank you. My comments re: the logic

behind putting convicted murderers to death don't reflect my opinion, but that of those who support the death penalty while opposing abortion. Maybe that was unclear in the way I said it? You're certainly correct that a convicted murderer may not be an actual murderer, which is one of the good reasons to oppose the death penalty. Another reason, of course, is a belief that taking a life is wrong. A baby in this context is an unborn human being. Once conception occurs, an unborn human being exists.

[Spinzonner]

6. Pardon me but ...

What's a 'human being' ?

And please also define your other term: conception

And does your application require that all - each and every - 'unborn human being' be protected from external intervention in the gestation process ?

[jdots]

3. where would you like me to start

niether of them being logical but what is logicical about flaming a new poster who has something to say.
This debate is a debate judged in ourselves going way past quantum semantics.

[DemBones DemBones]

5. I did not flame the new poster, I expressed an opinion

that disagreed with one thing (s)he said in a rather lengthy post. This is a political discussion board, a place for debating positions on issues.