re: Is abortion murder?

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That’s just a question of pragmatism, not morality, and many people think it’s more pragmatic to look out for #1. Criminals violate the social order all the time because they logically care about their personal well-being, not anybody else’s. Many of them are quite successful and stupid rich, as are many con men like Joel Osteen. Nothing wrong with that, right? They’re rich, they’re happy, and in 100 years it won’t matter even a little bit how they made their money.

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There’s a reason the vast majority of humans don’t commit violent crimes. We know that violent criminals are far more likely to exhibit certain genetic and psychosocial deviations from the norm that predispose to that behavior and those behaviors are selected against in a social society. Simply put, violent criminals are less successful at passing on their genetic information. If they weren’t the case society couldn’t exist as it does, and it does exist in part because of selective pressure.

The rest of your post is just a highly intelligent species developing the ability to hack the system. That doesn’t change the reality of the system though.