re: What amazes me about the abortion issue....

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That’s your presumption.

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Human dignity is a central concept in Kantian ethics. In the context of the points you've made, there's no useful distinction between Kant and Aquinas. We also get the added benefit of reducing your emotional reactions when I insult your religion.

Hopefully that clears it up for you.

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Call me a fundamentalist weirdo but innate human dignity exists because humans are made in the image and likeness of God.

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So why do you have a preference for your friend's survival over the people he presumably killed? Were those individuals not made in the image and likeness of your god?

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And before you go all pompous intellectual and allude to being way more educated than me, people with post-graduate degrees skew religious.

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Education and intelligence aren't the same.

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Do you subscribe to utilitarianism?

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I dabble.

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Would you be offended if I assumed you do?

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Not at all. That would be an odd reaction.