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The idea that legalising abortion until birth is a sign of moral sickness is obviously true, but it's only a small part of the picture. To really understand what's happening to our moral compasses, you need to consider the following:
A person hears about babies being killed on October 7th and declares it to be the ultimate evil, absolutely barbaric and demonic. Then they hear about babies being bombed to death in Palestine and they start running about waving an Israeli flag, cheering for the government that slaughtered those babies, suggesting that the Palestinian babies' murders are justified by the Israeli ones. Then they hear that the UK government has legalised abortion until birth, and they call it abhorrent and sickening, declaring once again that there can never be any excuse for killing babies.
A different person hears about babies being killed on October 7th and suggests it might be justified because of how Israel has treated Palestinians for decades. Then they hear about the babies killed in Palestine and declare it to be an inexcusable evil beyond comprehension. Then they hear that the UK government has legalised abortion until birth and they jump for joy at the idea of more baby killing. At the exact moment that law passes, they are also telling everyone they've got to lock down again because precious little babies are in danger of dying from Meningitis, and we must always do whatever we can to prevent the deaths of babies.
That's the true state of our collective moral schizophrenia.
"But Bob, some of the murdered baby stories were fake. And the meningitis scare is just another scam."
Undoubtedly. But that makes no difference whatsoever to the moral flip-flopping that these stories, real or fake, are designed to induce.
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