Re: POTUS 45:54: My Polls Are Better Than Your Polls
Kep swears he's not, he's just blinded by his compassion for the little zygotes.
It is not evil to single issue vote if you think it's about child murder. The problem isn't in his decision once he's made that judgment. His judgment is based on a metaphysics we don't share and which in my opinion has no business within a gazillion miles of the voting booth, but we can't escape our worldview nor should we.
It's not evil to be single issue Pro Life.
I don't think it's either stupid or crazy either. I don't agree with either the logic or the morality of the Pro Life movement, but neither represents either a lack of thinking or a break from reality. At worst Pro Lifers are ignorant and mistaken, but even that doesn't quite capture it. They take their beliefs seriously, and we should
not demonize that. The beliefs themselves may be based on faulty assumptions, poor parenting, lack of access to the human knowledge that has been built up since 1500, but that's no longer a matter of ontology, it's epistemology, and there is simply no fighting over that. Here they stand, they can do no other.
I would remind you that that sort of single mindedness, when turned to the good, makes heroes. It is the sort of thing that gives people the strength to tell the truth in a culture of lies, or stand up against an injustice that has been unconsciously accepted by society. That's not where the problem lies.
I fully understand that the hill these folks have chosen to make their stand on is, well, poorly conceived. But the fact that they make a stand is admirable. Yes, they're wrong. But if you believed what they do you would do well to act as they do.
Now, given all the other things that tend to matrix with those beliefs, they also usually wind up being big, fat hypocrites. But that's a different mater.
