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Old 11-27-2008, 04:51 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by BlackEleven View Post
This argument works both ways: why is it acceptable to kill a fetus who hasn't had a chance yet and unacceptable to kill someone who has brought only death and destruction into the world?

As someone who is on the same side of the argument as you, I find you to be doing it a disservice in this thread.
A murderer is a human. A fetus is not. QED.

And while pro-lifers will respond that a murderer isn`t human either, that just isn`t true. That is true only in the colloquial sense; the argument is not substantive and it`s only content is in its speciousness.
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