An open warning

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To anyone who might feel like defending abominations such as baby-murder and the State murder of the old and sick: be reminded that this blog is my space. I decide what goes in and out; and while I allow all my friends to say what they think or feel, I will not, on principle, leave in any defence of what I regard as crime. If you want to defend crime, do it in your own space and don't bother me; all you will get otherwise is deletion and banning.

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As for my belief being outmoded, you are only seventeen, so I will excuse your apparent belief that ideas of right and wrong depend on "mode" - that is, on fashion. But I suggest you ask yourself whether date has anything to do with morality. If you had been born in Germany in 1930, would that make killing people right for you? Because, you know, the fashion in Germany in the thirties was to kill Jews and Slavs any enemies of all kinds. And the fact that that was the up-to-date idea must have made it right. That is what you say when you say that moral ideas can be "outmoded".

That is not to say that you should not argue in favour of abortion if you really think it is just and right. If you want to defend a right to abortion, that is one thing; but you have to say that it is a right that exists at all times and for everyone, or else it is not a right at all. Fads and fashions, mode, do not have anything to do with it at all.

You also have to realize that this sort of argument simply robs you of the ability to argue. When superversive attacked this supposed right, you could say nothing in favour of it except that it is "outdated" to oppose it. You did not say anything that seriously threatened superversive's reasoning or pointed out weaknesses in his argument or stated alternative views: you simply thought that to impose this supposed chronological scheme, that opposition to abortion is "outdated", was enough to silence his points. That is both irrational and very poorly conceived. I would like you to try and set out an argument of your own on the matter, rather than to foolishly rely on dates.