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Originally Posted by Combwork
If you and your family by free choice live by this belief would you leave it at that? If you could make abortion a criminal offense, no matter what the circumstances, would you do so? Would you take my freedom of choice away because, by your belief, deliberately breaking the chain immediately after cell division is murder?
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That's the problem with the assumption that moral relativism is a good ideal. There are folks who believe that "All men are rapists", marriage is legalized rape, and that heterosexual intercourse is the ultimate expression of derision towards women. I wouldn't want to live in a world governed by their morality or belief system either, though I suspect many of them might be found in the pro-choice camp.
Those who argue that there can be no moral absolutes use much sophistry to support their arguments. But can a society where morality (or a sense or right or wrong) is relative uphold any values, since any sense of "wrong" might be reduced to the sensibilities of the least common denominator of that society?