BooneRebel - I am always willing to discuss my beliefs with others. My interpretation is based on logic. Here it is in short form. If I don't have an SUV, they can still affect me negatively. If I don't have an abortion, then other people having abortions won't affect me personally negatively. I even change my mind if they have a more persuasive argument. First off, please explain your views on SUVs and abortion and why they are consistent. I will go first.
In a nutshell (see my earlier posts for more thorough analysis) SUVs affect everyone else on the road negatively, and arguably even people not on the road, through environmental effects. It is cheaper to not have an SUV, so expense cannot be used as an excuse. SUVs are simply a luxury item that adversely affects others in a myriad of ways, while arguably serving no tangible benefit to the user. That is why I dislike SUVs.
Abortion (in a nutshell). Would I want my girlfriend to have an abortion? No. Do I think that my opinion is sufficient to outlaw abortion for everyone else? No. There is no way to objectively decide when life begins and when a fetus should be afforded full legal rights. A two-celled organism does not necessarily have a right to life, IMO. At what point does an organism have a right to life? There's no absolute right or wrong here, but I would say when it can survive outside the mother's womb on it's own (breathing and environment-wise, it doesn't have to get a job, cook food pay rent, etc.) What I mean is, if you take a bundle of two cells out of the womb and put it on a table, it dies. If you take an 8.5 month old baby (that hasn't been born yet) out of the womb and put it on the table, it can live. I don't know at which point the organism is "self-sufficient" but before then it is dependent on the mother and if the mother doesn't want to support it, then I think it should be up to the mother.
Hope that helps.
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