If the law punishes women for abortion, men should be arrested for masturbation
President Trump stated a woman who has an abortion must be punished by the law! On the same token, I'd say if this is the case, then every male who masturbates must be arrested for murder!
Some people think, they are defending bioethics but cause more harm than benefit by their half-knowledge or ignorance about bio and ethics. For example, bombing abortion clinics or killing staff in those clinics or banning stem cell studies!
How could someone justify killing humans to defend the potential life of a few cells? It is ignorance to consider a couple of hundred cells in a dish a potential life. Every cell in the human body is a potential for life, based on advanced science. So, according to this concept, every time a person sneezes or scratches a nose, he or she has killed a million potential life! When a male masturbates he is murdering millions of potential life people.
The main goal, for stem cell research, is to grow new organs to replace failing ones. However, the excitement about cloning is excitement about knowledge and possibilities. People who can't have children now can have children with their own body, not others. If we do not address every new possibility we will never progress. When Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetism he never knew what to do with it! He never expected it to lead to the motor and also become the base for our communications and civilization.
It's all relative, if you are religious you may justify abortion under specific circumstances but other religious people do not under any circumstances. If you consider rape a justification for abortion, other religious more literal people say a child from rape is God's will. A girl who has been raped must go through pregnancy and birth and raise the child of her rapist or give it to adoption. This is very difficult for any mother. I believe to my core this is ridiculous.
We need bioethics that is not influenced by any religious opinions because they vary. Bioethics must be influenced only by the standard humanity values Bioethics should not be affected by a specific religion because religions contradict each other. Unfortunately, Bioethics in a society is highly based on the dominant religion in that society. Bioethics in Egypt is totally different from Bioethics in the USA.
How can you take in consideration aspects of cultural and common human values in the USA for example if they are different from religion to religion and culture to culture within the same society? Organ transplant and blood transfusion are life-saving but forbidden according to Jehovah's witnesses. Muslims refuse bovine based insulin or heart valves. Pure Chathlic Christians refuse any abortion, Embryonic Stem Cell treatment, and the use of condoms even in the face of HIV. How can you decide what to apply to whom?
My philosophical issue here is how can we call it COMMON human ethics and it is different from place to another or even from religion/culture to another within the same society? How can we respect and accommodate all religions and cultures equally while they oppose, and ridicule each other? What gives us the right to force what we call common human ethics on others when it comes to minors and not just the adults?
Talking about political agenda and policies, what makes ignorant politicians have the right to make decisions about something beyond their level of intelligence, education, knowledge or comprehension. What gives the right to politicians to make laws only based on their factless beliefs. Why do men in political power decide for women when to have a child or what to do with their bodies, vaginas or uteruses. Why do people care so much and want to control other's private life, behavior, sexuality or what they do with their genitals or rectums, Who cares?
I think it is delusional to believe we can accommodate all religions equally. The only way to accommodate all religions is to disregard them all and come up with a none-cultural and a none-religious set of basic human ethics.
I like very much when I make people think. It is very simple and not complex at all. It becomes very complex when we try to tailor facts in order to suit our agenda.
Some may claim the right to abide by and follow the faith of their choice differently from the mishaps of the Catholic Church. They have agreed to ignore some of the Catholic or the Orthodox Church believes because it has conflicting moral issues in spite of 2.2 billion people are following it. Some of the religious dogmas sound better when it comes to human ethics. However, the majority decides what is right and what is wrong and the majority can often be wrong especially compared to another majority somewhere else.
Basic morals have nothing to do with any religion but it has so much to do with basic human nature and ethics. We as human, even primates, and animals, naturally know not to do harm and to do good. We know that any form of killing is unethical. Animals morn death too. When my Grandpa was murdered in Egypt by the hands of some people who believed they were serving their Allah, his horse, and dog cried in tears and starved themselves to death morning him. When my puppy was in pain my other dogs cried like children very sadly and howled very loudly because they felt empathy and knew something bad happened to a creature.
It is a huge misconception that religions mean morals. Some religions encourage doing harm and killing, some encourage rejecting other people for their different sexual orientation, or faith. Some religions subjugate women and others make them less than men. Most religions threat with eternal fire and hell if you disagree or go to another faith or group even within the same faith. We have been programmed from before the ability to learn how to think to do good out of fear and to believe it is chaos without religion.
Religions have no role what so ever in countries with best the morals and protected human rights like Sweeden, Norway, Danmark, and Germany. Most religious countries violate human rights and morals like Colombia, El Salvador, and Mexico, not to mention the entire Islamic world from Egypt, Saudi, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, to Iran. Why do we need theologians, religious people to decide for us?? We are smarter and more knowledgeable to think and decide for ourselves. We need smart experts in the field to help us decide what is good for us.
For example, what makes ISIS doings right and OK in some fundamental societies but a crime in others? and what is it good for if societies condemning ISIS are so far away and will have no impact on the people who suffer? What gives us the right to force our values on others?
Why do we need to consume or energy time and money to make laws or to regulate who marries whom, who goes to which bathroom, or who sleeps with whom? Is it for the sake of morals? What are Morals? The details of morals are different from religion to religion and place to place.
Doing good, empathy and love come naturally not out of fear of burning in hell.
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