BoshStrikesBack posted...
Shoplifting hurts business, and subsequently everybody who works for that business. Abortion potentially hurts nobody, assuming you have the procedure done before the brain is fully formed (before that point in time, the fetus cannot feel anything or perceive its environment).
Again, it's a value judgment. You're trying to be a utilitarian while pretending that "maximizing pleasure" isn't a moral claim (and a specious one at that).
The fact that you can sit there and try to tell me that shoplifting and abortion are similarly "wrong" only proves my point. We both accept shoplifting as wrong, but we can't agree about the acceptability of abortion.
Even if you want to claim that stealing is only subjectively wrong (afterall, "wrong" is a subjective term), I can't think of a single society where theft is legal and acceptable. It's by far the more accepted "hurtful" crime, because the damage done is quantifiable by a standard measure, and abortion isn't.
And even if they were equal in some ridiculous way, it would still be a red herring argument.
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