Originally posted by: Dug
Conservatives are athiests, ricarleite? I suppose you're making reference to if we don't support abortion, then we must be hypocritical to support the death penalty or even war, am I right? Thought so. Like Ferris209 said, there are basises for permitting death penalty, and war-time killing. Yeah, we have the "turn the other cheek" motto, but there is also a level of being responsible for your fellow man, and if that means removing a subject from society that will be nothing but a continual threat, then that is the responsible thing to do.
Conservatives are athiests, ricarleite? I suppose you're making reference to if we don't support abortion, then we must be hypocritical to support the death penalty or even war, am I right? Thought so. Like Ferris209 said, there are basises for permitting death penalty, and war-time killing. Yeah, we have the "turn the other cheek" motto, but there is also a level of being responsible for your fellow man, and if that means removing a subject from society that will be nothing but a continual threat, then that is the responsible thing to do.
I don't support abortion in any way. The commandment, to me, still reads "not kill" and is regardless of any exceptions or "unless...". What makes you think one side has the right to kill? Killing in order to prevent killings of people who don't kill?