Originally posted by seer
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Second, if you can invent an arbitrary standard to justify the killing of the unborn, why not invent an arbitrary standard to justify the killing of dissenters?
Whereas you theists can basically change it up anytime you like and target any group you like: "Hey guys, God just told me that we have to go on a crusade/jihad against those evil people over there! He wants us to drive them out of the land utterly and kill them to the last, like when the children of Israel were told to drive out the Canaanites!"
The bible is full of passages like the 'curse of Ham', or various commands of genocide, or commands not to intermarry with other races, or to stone all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons, that give a blank check to anyone wanting to come up with a God-given excuse to kill, punish or persecute whatever group they personally don't like / happen to feel God has told them not to like.
Beside you leftists are already looking to kill just born children.
The philosophical observation your link rightly makes is that fetuses/newborns are not thinking beings, and thus moral obligations with regard to them are lessened, just as they are with animals. Harming them is still wrong, but it is not as wrong. It is therefore unsurprising that so many cultures in human history have practiced infanticide, and equally unsurprising that most people in history have been happy to kill animals for meat.
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