The Silence of the Pro-Lifers
So Donald Trump is backing away from comments about punishing women who have abortions, after a lot of negative comments -- and very few supportive comments. But let's think about the position for a bit. The reason most "Pro-Life" people give for banning abortion is that they consider that, from the moment of conception, you have a human being who happens to be unborn for the time being. Thus, abortion is taking a human life, in other words, murder. However, if this is so, doesn't logic demand that the person deciding, participating in, and paying for, the murder be punished? So why should Trump have to backtrack from his statement? Shouldn't he be receiving an outpouring of support instead?
It seems to me that what we have here is a classic reductio ad absurdum -- if the logic is good, but the conclusion is wrong, there is a problem with a basic assumption.
It seems to me that what we have here is a classic reductio ad absurdum -- if the logic is good, but the conclusion is wrong, there is a problem with a basic assumption.