• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    All killing is murder

    homicide*

    Murder is just homicide that’s illegal; and legality should never be conflated with morality. In any context, not just killing.

    Being sanctioned by the state doesn’t make it moral; and being illegal doesn’t make it immoral (and yes, homicide can be moral).

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      3 days ago

      I tell forced birthers even if I am murdering a conscious being, I’m justified in protecting myself from unnecessary, nonconsented harm

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        3 days ago

        You can even make that argument from two different angles: self defense and triage. Even if a sperm and an egg become a ‘human’, with all the rights n’ shit that come with it, the second they join, we still have multiple precedents for legally and socially-acceptably killing that ‘person’.