Re: So-called pro-lifers

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:03:29 -0600

At 02:40 PM 6/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Russell,
>
>Just a private opinion of mine:
>
>> Therefore making this "universal, eternal" moral code rather easy to
>> manipulate. After all, one can simply define "murder" however one
>> wishes. The Crusaders certainly didn't believe that they were commiting
>> murder. Nor did the Inquisitors, the witch-burners, or modern-day
>> "Pro-Lifers" who murder abortion doctors.
>
>While I am aware that a few so-called "Pro-Lifers" have murdered
>abortion doctors, please don't refer to them as pro-lifers. That
>is an insult to those of us who are abhored by those actions. It
>wasn't the "pro-life" aspect of these people that led them to the
>murders, but rather that they are not-all-there mentally.
>
>The vast, vast majority of us true pro-lifers would never be able
>to commit such an act.

I know that, but this schism just goes to emphasize once again the non-
existence of a true universal, eternal moral code.

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Tautology
(n) See truism.

Truism
(n) See tautology.