How do you feel about taxpayer-funded military violence, police violence, and incarceration? All of those exist far beyond my moral and religious values, but there’s no exceptions I can make for my taxes to be used to fund those. If all of those are justifiable uses of tax funds despite how immorally abhorrent many feel they are, I don’t see why public support for access to reproductive care should be any different.
Fair enough. Thank you for clarifying with the second message. Here's my opinion of it, you may disagree.
The examples you cited all involve people that have in some way done something wrong. I understand completely that mistakes happen in arrests, jail sentences/imprisonment, and war. I'm not going to argue it never happens, but the intent is not to harm the innocent.
To those that see abortion as killing a human, it is killing an innocent. There is no way to do an abortion without killing an innocent.
I think that is the distinction and is why some religions (and adherents) are morally opposed.
Your question makes me think of Thoreau (see link) and his refusal to pay taxes because it might fund war, if memory serves.
Just so you know that I’m not coming here just to troll, I should share that I do appreciate your thoughts on RCV. You raise points I hadn’t considered before and have made me rethink my position there.
I'm against it because it's simply a newfangled means of electing the same crappy person who wants to be a politician.
Ha! Thank you for the laugh to start my day.
How do you feel about taxpayer-funded military violence, police violence, and incarceration? All of those exist far beyond my moral and religious values, but there’s no exceptions I can make for my taxes to be used to fund those. If all of those are justifiable uses of tax funds despite how immorally abhorrent many feel they are, I don’t see why public support for access to reproductive care should be any different.
Fair enough. Thank you for clarifying with the second message. Here's my opinion of it, you may disagree.
The examples you cited all involve people that have in some way done something wrong. I understand completely that mistakes happen in arrests, jail sentences/imprisonment, and war. I'm not going to argue it never happens, but the intent is not to harm the innocent.
To those that see abortion as killing a human, it is killing an innocent. There is no way to do an abortion without killing an innocent.
I think that is the distinction and is why some religions (and adherents) are morally opposed.
Your question makes me think of Thoreau (see link) and his refusal to pay taxes because it might fund war, if memory serves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)
Just so you know that I’m not coming here just to troll, I should share that I do appreciate your thoughts on RCV. You raise points I hadn’t considered before and have made me rethink my position there.