Re: Abortion

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marie A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

>When we don't execute those
>who have willfully and premeditatedly taken the life of another, as a
>society we make a statement that we value the murderer's life more
>than that of his/her victim[s].

With respect, Marie, have you thought this argument through?

The victim's life is no longer in the equation once the murder has
been committed. The only question is: how do we value the
murderer's life?

I would say that if the murderer is allowed to live, there is the
possibility that s/he may change her/his attitudes and behaviour,
and become useful citizens. If we kill them, then this clearly cannot
happen.

Now, if we *do* kill them, it will be a wilful and premeditated murder,
and by your formula, should end with the execution of someone
else. Who? The executioner? The judge? You?

The Mafia work this way, of course, and so do many primitive
societies. But the US is, as far as I know, the only advanced
democracy that practices judicial murder.

Do you think that "God save America" has anything to do with it?

-- 
ralph