Posted on 03/16/2012 2:32:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
They’re trying to thread the needle of “I’m a good person and support women’s rights but I’m not advocating murder.”
The ones that I have in mind would add - “I really didn’t commit murder... really, I didn’t”.
“Murder” is a legal descriptor. It’s not murder if you kill someone runs in front of you on the interstate. “Infanticide” is the legally neutral term for killing an infant, and I think it’s the most useful term for the purpose.
I think we should try to get away from the idea of “ ... a good person (except for ...),” because if we’re honest, very few of us are what we would describe as “a good person” if we were talking about someone other than ourselves. As Jesus said, “There is One who is good,” or “No one is good but God alone.”
I totally agree with your last paragraph,
but these are leftists we are talking about.
This in itself is THE assumption that divides the left/liberal and the Christian/conservative.
Who is Man? Fallen or basically good?
From this dichotomy of assumptions, all other ideological conclusions result.
IE, leftists believe they ARE “good people except for (x)”.
It’s a lie way back from Genesis 3.
Yes, and it's interesting that, in many cases, you'd get a blank stare if you asked one, "What do you do, specifically, that is good?" They're "good" simply in their existence, and particularly in their "right thoughts," rather than in good acts they do or bad acts they avoid.
How many conservatives murder their babies?
If infanticide is a legally neutral term then we are in deep trouble. From Webster's 1828 dictionary:
INFANT'ICIDE, n. [Low L. infanticidium; infans, an infant, and coedo, to kill.]
infanticide is universally, viscerally understood to be evil.
This is why “I’m a good person” abortion supporting libs recoil from the equating of abortion with infanticide.
Exactly. It means "deliberately killing an infant," and that is the topic here. "Post-birth abortion" is an absurd phrase. It is intended to carry the social approval of "abortion" (prenatal infanticide) over to additional killing.
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