Roe Vs Wade Overturned

[KillerGoose]

(06-13-2023, 05:59 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Michaelsean just answered this above, but I'll expound a bit.  You're asserting there is no difference between a death by action and inaction.  In one instance the mother is deciding not to take an action to save the child's life.  In the other, abortion, she is taking an action to deliberately end the child's life.  They are not the same.

If I push you off a cliff and you grab the edge and I don't help you up I caused your death.  If I walk by and see you hanging from the edge of a cliff, don't help you and you fall to your death I failed to prevent your death.  I trust you see the vast difference between these two choices.

I agree with your thoughts here. While I think that this hypothetical you has played an active role in my death in varying degrees in both scenarios, the version where you actively pull the trigger bears more blame than the version who simply allowed me to die.

I do think we can construct an analogy that fits and perhaps causes some conflict. Let’s say you willingly enter a blood drive so that you may donate blood. The process begins, and at some point during the process you are informed that you have an incredibly rare type of blood. As chance would have it, there is a person in the hospital who also has this rare blood type and is in dire need of a transfusion, as well as future transfusions. Given the unique situation, they have wheeled this individual down and they are now using you to keep them alive without discussing with you first. Without you there, the person will surely die.

Do you believe that you should be mandated to now stay and support this person through your own bodily means, or should you have a choice of whether or not you do so?

Also, just a note that I find these philosophical discussions interesting so this isn’t coming from a place of malice or a “gotcha” attempt. I’m just trying to construct an intellectually honest analogy, one where I feel like there is potential to create conflict in a situation that many see as black and white.