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do you know why murder is illegal beyond it being malum per se?
Because it violates the natural human right to life.
because if SOCIETY does not punish murder, anarchy will result.
**** society. Our rights are individual.
If someone were to kill my son or wife or brother and society does NOTHING to punish the murderer, I am going to spent the rest of my days on earth doing every thing possible to kill everyone who was responsible for said killing. and I suspect that the survivors of my wrath would probably try to do the same to me and so on and so on
So what you're saying is that in order to be satisfied that it should be illegal, we need fathers of aborted kids to hunt down their kids' killers?
Well, I guess that makes some kind of perverse sense, but I'd rather just have justice instead of vigilantism or revenge.
so by having recourse to the criminal justice system, the desire for personal vengeance is mostly alleviated as people who have seen loved ones murdered defer to the state to punish the bastards who killed a family member or close friend
no such impetus exists for an abortion.
By this standard, a homeless man with no family or friends is completely acceptable to murder.
But this is not the standard - we are all created equal and we all possess the same unalienable right to life. It is just as wrong to kill the well-connected with folks who will miss them as it is to kill someone who is all alone in the world.