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I feel the same about some other things. For me for example abortion is murder and completely unacceptable. But I don't insult abortionists, I try to understand why they think like that.

That said I'm out of this thread because nothing good could ever come of it. :)

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'Abortion is murder' but I bet you still eat meat...

Outside of a few extremely devout Buddhists, very, very few people I've spoken with adhere to a consistent set of first principles when it comes to making moral decisions across abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and vegetarianism.

The question of what gives a life its value is a difficult one and is nearly impossible to discuss on a forum like this.

You say you don't "insult" pro-choice people, but you use the term "abortionist" which is weaponized specifically by the fundamentalist right wing to imply that people who don't feel that they can assert supremacy over the bodies of women like abortions. Meanwhile, pro-choice folks, in most of the Western world, have generally sought policies that make abortion as "safe, legal, and rare".

So forgive me if I don't buy in. Words mean things and words tell you things and yours underline your bad faith.

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