[chezlaw]

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Chez,

You hit the nail on the head, I think. Is there a difference between the present and the future relative to how we think about things? You answer that there is no difference. Or rather, the difference is irrelevant. (Your thinking is very similar to theistic thinking, Hey, you've been called worse things.)

I think the difference is this: one (the future) is theoretical the other (people living today) is pragmatic. This gets into the abortion issue – stuff like that.

This really, really needs to be carried to SMP. When I get time later, I will try to post something to get things started there.

RJT

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The only important point about abortion (imo) is captured here. If its the killing of a person then its unacceptable to me, but if its an action on something that may have led to a person existing but now wont then its of no importance whatsoever.

So I have no issue at all with early abortions or contraception, and a big problem with post-natal ones.

chez

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Yet, you are so concerned about people 500 years from now (That is pre-pre-pre-pre natal)! Wow, you just floored me, chez.

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but they are people who will exists as opposed to never existing.

You can't harm something that won't ever have any existence.

chez