[extropy-chat] defending life?

[Bryan Moss]

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>If you lack a moral compass that allows you to distinguish, try this one on for size: the unborn are innocent. Murderers, islamofascists, and terrorists are not. Is he being excessively pedantic about cells in a petri dish? Probably. He is not, however, being pedantic about the wrongness of government funding such activity with the money of taxpayers who are morally opposed to it.
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If the government didn't fund activities that x number of taxpayers are 
morally opposed to, where x is (at least) the number of taxpayers 
opposed to stem cell research, I doubt there would be a death penalty.  
There would certainly be no Iraq war (or at least no government funding 
for it).  And that's assuming x is very high.  The whole notion seems 
rather silly, if I may say so.

BM