Reply #6: The bottom line is ....

[Trajan]

You think what you think .. and thats it ....

You refuse to acknowledge my own view of the fetus, and instead FORCE your own view to prevail as the premise: ... you are now begging the question .... I KNOW that IF one accepts that preborn fetuses are human beings THEN one might quibble over the differences ... but I DONT ACCEPT THAT VIEW ....

Therefore: ... I wont even bother with your preordained conclusion that abortion = capital punishment .....


IF I carry a baseball bat behind the drivers seat in my car: .. I am guilty of carrying a concealed weapon .... so therefore: There ARE laws against possession of certain types of objects in certain situations .... hence your assertion that MY logic would lead to such a situation is QED ..... it is a demonstrable fact ....


Drug use 'harms' the user in different ways: .... by 'harm', I refer to BODILY harm ..... when a drug user uses: .. he causes BODILY harm to his own person .. yet he causes NO bodily harm to ANYONE else in that case .... But guns cause bodily harm to those OUTSIDE of the user .... not to mention the emotional distress guns cause in society ....

What if one overeats and causes premature death ? ... shall his loved ones be emotionally distressed by his self caused death ? .... what recourse should society take then to forestall this distress ? ...
Shall we outlaw overeasting ????? ....

ANY obsession or infatuation may cause emotional 'harm' ... yet such definitions are of no significance: .. DRUGS cannot be compared to guns unless one intends to show that drugs cause PHYSICAL harm, like guns do ...

YOU are making the 'physical harm' correlation between guns and drugs to establish your argument, then you discard this nexus when convenient to promote a different correlation: one of SOCIAL 'harm' .... We could rightly call this an equivocation ...

Really: .. you MUST try to think deeper ....

I dont intend to hash this stuff out over again ....

The REAL point might be: ... WHY are you promoting a right wing philosophical viewpoint on a progressive forum ? ... DU is NOT a wide open forum for ALL points of view, but exclusive for those who are left leaning ...