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[adderslj]

When did western culture become so moronic? Why has debate reached the point where the only option seems to be "pick a side and defend its values until the death"?

Take abortion. Abortion is one of the terrible, hard decisions we as a society have to face regularly.

The facts are these: there will always be unwanted pregnancies and women will always seek to end them in some fashion. However, doing so ends the existence of something that will, without intervention, become a human being.

This is actually simple to grasp, yet the debate is dominated by two groups, one of which is unwilling to deal with the reality of backstreet abortions and the human cost of unwanted children, while the other is unwilling to countenance for a second that an abortion might be taking the life of a human being (or that there might be serious emotional consequences for the mother further down the line).

So there we have it, one of the most serious ethical dilemmas our society has to face, and it's reduced to a shouting match between two groups of morons. There are people who are pro-life and people who are pro-choice, but precious few who are pro-thought.

Really, I hope there are better sentient species than us out there somewhere, because we're not using this gift of intelligence terribly well right now.

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[innocent-man.livejournal.com]

True. That's hard, too, though. Let's say your teen gets pregnant. As a parent, you've got to put aside all of your anger, humiliation and frustration and actually help her cope with what's happening. Very, very few people are capable of doing that, especially in a culture of entitlement like the one we currently enjoy.

[adders.livejournal.com]

Indeed, but (given that this specific thread of comments was talking from a Christian perspective) the call to love one another is hard, very hard, which is why too many so-called Christians prefer just to bash other people with misunderstood Biblical literalism rather than actually enage with the deeply challenging teachings of Christ. Just because it's hard to do something, doesn't mean people who genuinely believe in a faith shouldn't do it.