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comment by bioemerl

I think I should clarify myself a bit more here, because I thought about where things may be going wrong.

Firstly, when I talk about my judgement of how society makes it's decisions I do not refer to the decisions individuals make. For example, I have stated that the decision to abort a baby is an immoral and calculated one. I do not think this is true on the individual's level. Instead, it is the society, the larger social result of all people talking to one another, that is cold and calculating.

If you support abortion because you saw the behaviors on an individual level, then I don't consider you to be making a cold, calculated, or bad decision to support abortion.

What I think is that society trending towards the support and legalization of abortion is only doing so because of factors in recent changes, and it is the larger picture, the behaviors of people on a large scale, that allows abortion because of all the benefits it has now compared to how it used to.

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Secondly, I was arguing for the idea that my moral viewpoint when I so strongly was pushing the idea of babies being people and abortion being the killing of them. This wasn't me stating, at all, that I believe abortion was a bad thing. Instead, that was me trying to express my viewpoint and reasons that I have changed my views on morality and the nature of how we should think about the world. It was stupid to include that in this whole post, and it really wasn't appropriate, sorry about that.

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And, finally, when I talk about abortion I am referring to it from a very clinical modeled distant perspective. Those variables you talk about how "abortion is not like getting a sandwich" are things I am well aware of, but I wasn't considering those "up close" and personal situations when I was/am talking about decisions we make as a society. I have no need or desire to consider those situations, because I feel that I can't say anything about them. I am not speaking from the scope of any individual's life, but the scope of broad human behavior.