CoffeeSaint said:
1. Our population is not decreasing.
Proudly Pro Life JP Freem said:
Maybe with the illegal & legal immigrants coming here steen are you legal, you never answered that? The population is going down in this country anyway.
How ridiculous. "And, unlike Europe, the US population is growing fast - from 200 million in 1970, to nearly 300 million today and a projected 420 million in 2050"
www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=199§ion=2
Are there 100 million immigrants where you live? Because there aren't where I am.
CoffeeSaint said:
2. Many things are different from 1973; they are not all caused by abortion. As for violence in high schools, I'm a high school teacher; trust me, the violence is not caused by abortion.
Proudly Pro Life JP Freem said:
Ok what is the cause what is your opinion? (I have laid my trap)
I think it is ridiculous to try to look to single, simple causes for the behavior nof individuals, and even more ridiculous to look to single, simple causes for societal trends. If anything, the downtrend in personal responsibility is most directly related (and thus I lay MY trap), as it is the single greatest cause of the decrease in education's effectiveness; as education becomes less effective, and students become more frustrated and hopeless, they tend to lash out. But that is only my opinion, and certainly not something I can prove.
coffeesaint said:
Most kids are pro-life, believe it or not. None of them think life is cheap and therefore can be wasted.
Proudly Pro Life JP Freem said:
Is that why the modern music depicks Women as HO's Cheap. As a Dad with 2 girls it scares me to death.
That same music also depicts men as pimps and gangstas, soldiers and hustlers; they do not see it as realistic. Kids are not stupid, whatever you may think; they look at a video game that shows people being murdered and think, "There's a video game showing people being murdered." They do not think, "I guess I'll go out and shoot a lot of people, just like that."
Children who commit violent acts are violent children. The music doesn't make them violent, nor do video games; nor does the legality of abortion.
CoffeeSaint said:
In fact, I would say the only thing in our society today that was caused by Roe v. Wade is the fact that we still have legalized abortion, and many people do not exist because of it. I don't believe there is anything else that was "caused" by legalized abortion. As for the people who are not alive today, the number is far fewer than the number that are not alive today because of cancer. Why, then, is our energy not directed at fighting cancer? Or AIDS? Or diabetes? Or one of the other scourges that kill millions of us? If you want to fight easily preventable death, how about fighting against drug and alcohol abuse? If you want to fight victimization, why not fight rape, molestation, and abuse?
Why are you fighting this fight? Who are you trying to help? Do you really think the greatest evil in our society is abortion?
Proudly Pro Life JP Freem said:
Yes I think the killing of an innocent human being is the greatest evil man can ever commit. The reason I fight so hard for life I watch 5 babies die all of them could have been legally aborted. I know what they are Innocent human beings.
But you accept the slavery of women as par for the course. Your position is not a moral one, sir. Your personal tragedy is terrible, but it doesn't justify slavery. Those women are just as innocent of a crime as are the children, your Puritan views of sex notwithstanding; if I remember right, you have said you are not against sex, even though the only way to prevent all unwanted pregnancies is simply to prevent all pregnancies.
Before you leap into your birth control argument again, let me give you a different hyopothetical. A woman marries the man of her dreams; they are young and healthy, and he is gainfully employed. They decide the time is right to have a family, since his income can support the two of them; so they conceive a child. And two months later, the husband dies in an accident.
Now she is mourning, she no longer has an income, and she has no nest egg, as he had no insurance, being a young man. If this woman decides not to bring that baby to term, are you honestly going to say that she should not be allowed to change her mind? Would you take the choice away from her, tell her she should have used birth control?
Please do not think you can state that this woman would surely want the child, or that she could turn to her family for help. It is a hypothetical situation; take it as a given that she wants to end the pregnancy, immeidately, and answer the question. Should she have used birth control? Or should she lose her right to control her body?