Remembrance Thread

[Gabu]

This thread is akin to Akno's comment in the thread on Supersoulty's bill on unwed and teenage mothers.  Calling abortions murder with no qualifiers whatsoever, as if it were a plain fact that everyone in the world agrees with, solves absolutely nothing and only serves to further sharpen the divide between either side.  If you want to actually solve problems rather than simply sweep them under the carpet, you have to listen to the other side.

[Gabu]

The fact is Gabu.  14,000 times more life has been destroyed since RvW than on 9/11.  Genocide

If you think that abortion is murder under any circumstances, this is true.  If you don't, however, as half the country doesn't, then being accused of murdering millions of people is not going to jive well with you.  Things are always easier to understand if you're able to see things from the other person's point of view.

With all due respect, and with no offense intended, I'm troubled at the prospect of having a GM who seems unable to see both sides of an issue.

[Gabu]

I said that?

I was referring to your comment that abortion helps overpopulation.  The only comparison I was attempting to make is that neither comment really takes into account the other side's point of view.

[Gabu]

Gabu, it IS life from the time of conception. Whether it is HUMAN life is what is usually debated.  Cells are life, that is why I said LIFE.

I don't debate that, but look at what you initially said:

I would like all government officials to post here in remembrance of the 42,000,000 children slaughtered in the last 32 years.  God Bless Them

Unless you think that children aren't forms of human life, you asserted that the fetuses were human life, which is, as you even admitted, in debate.

I'm not arguing that the fetuses aren't some form of life, but if they were known not to be human life, I somehow doubt that so many people would be anti-abortion.

I'd like to note that the point of what I said was not to argue for or against abortion; all I'm saying is that it's not really going to solve anything at all to accuse pro-choice people of murdering 42,000,000 children.  Try to see things from the other side's point of view.  It makes discussing matters with them a whole lot easier and facilitates actual dialogue that produces amicable compromises and unity rather than accusations that produce division and disdain.