Surely with a name like pro-life, they’re funding children’s education to enable them to succeed in life, promoting sex education to reduce the number of unplanned births, offering free health care so they can live, and so on and so forth.
Well, “legality != morality” basically just boils down to leaving us with no instructions as to what morality is. It can be an argument for anything. Slavery is illegal now, and legality isn’t morality, so what?
Unfortunately, all these things exist:
legal and moral things
illegal and immoral things
legal and immoral things
illegal and moral things
So they really give us no information about each other.
I don’t think the post is insinuating that something being illegal constitutes it being moral either… I think it’s just correctly pointing out that there is no meaningful connection between legality and morality.
Common pro-life argument.
What’s pro-life? Are those the people trying to abolish capital punishment and end wars?
Surely with a name like pro-life, they’re funding children’s education to enable them to succeed in life, promoting sex education to reduce the number of unplanned births, offering free health care so they can live, and so on and so forth.
That sounds right, but I can’t imagine they would be pro-war or pro death penalty.
Well, “legality != morality” basically just boils down to leaving us with no instructions as to what morality is. It can be an argument for anything. Slavery is illegal now, and legality isn’t morality, so what?
Unfortunately, all these things exist:
So they really give us no information about each other.
I don’t think the post is insinuating that something being illegal constitutes it being moral either… I think it’s just correctly pointing out that there is no meaningful connection between legality and morality.