Nick:
I really don't mean to inflame things by asking, but would you apply
cost- benefit analysis to abortion? Is war really so different?
JDG:
No, as cost-benefit-analysis can never be used to justify an
intrinsicly
evil action. For example, if cost-benefit-analysis showed that our
civilization would be better off by rounding up and euthanizing the
homeless, I would be opposed to that policy. Since I don't consider
war to be intrinsically evil - that is I believe that a "just war"
exists, cost-benefit-analysis becomes an appropriate consideration in
recommending for or against a war.
Doug:
OK, but what's that got to do with abortion?
There are people -- I'm assuming that JDG is one of them -- who believe
that abortion is intrinsically evil: that there is no such thing as a
"just abortion."
There are other people -- I'm reading Nick's message as indicating that
he is one of them -- who believe that war and abortion are not "really
so different."
Dave
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