At 02:08 PM 4/14/2005 -0700, Dave Land wrote: >> Nick: >>>> I really don't mean to inflame things by asking, but would you apply >>>> cost- benefit analysis to abortion? Is war really so different? >> >> JDG: >>> No, as cost-benefit-analysis can never be used to justify an >>> intrinsicly >>> evil action. For example, if cost-benefit-analysis showed that our >>> civilization would be better off by rounding up and euthanizing the >>> homeless, I would be opposed to that policy. Since I don't consider >>> war to be intrinsically evil - that is I believe that a "just war" >>> exists, cost-benefit-analysis becomes an appropriate consideration in >>> recommending for or against a war. >> >> Doug: >> OK, but what's that got to do with abortion? > >There are people -- I'm assuming that JDG is one of them -- who believe >that abortion is intrinsically evil: that there is no such thing as a >"just abortion."
Let's connect the dots: -human life begins at conception -murder, the intentional killing of an innocent, is intrinsically evil -abortion is intrinsically evil Since I knew that many of the pro-choice people on this list would have difficuly with this, I used another example where the members of the list would *not* use a cost-benefit analysis to justify the killing of other human beings. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
