[extropy-chat] defending life?

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 11 17:05:05 UTC 2004


--- Bryan Moss <bryan.moss at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >  
> 
> 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.

On the contrary. There is majority support for the death penalty, and
certainly there was majority support for the war up until the "oops, no
WMD" declaration, at least. You'd also have to distinguish between
people who actually pay taxes and those who do not.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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