Saturday, July 13, 2013
Mixed feelings
Texas tried again, overcame Satan's mobs, and passed a firm law against killing babies. If it were allowed to become law, the results would be excellent. Most babykilling shops in Texas would have to close. Of course it won't be allowed. Black-robed federal Satans will stop it long before it has a chance to take effect.
Aside from the fine results, I have mixed feelings about the justification written into this particular law. Justifying a babykilling ban on the basis of feeling pain is a bad precedent. First, it's subjective and uncertain, not based on firm knowledge. Second and more important, it's UNNECESSARY.
Human life has a perfectly objective and secular and scientific definition. At the moment when the zygote divides, it's on the way to becoming a full-grown human. At any point after that first division, intentionally destroying it must count as some form of illegal act. Not necessarily murder. We make clear distinctions between types of adult death, from natural to self-defense to premeditated. The same distinctions can be applied before birth. Miscarriage is natural death, avoiding maternal danger (but NOT "emotional distress") is self-defense, and paying a hitman to suck out the baby's brain is premeditated murder.
We don't need to bring pain into the equation. Even worse, this opens the gate to Peter Singer's evil definition of life as "being really really smart like Peter Singer". If feeling no pain is non-living, then we can be legally killed when we sleep or when we're under anesthetic or when we're snockered.
¶ 7:16 AM 
