Whether you think it's OK to smack children or not, 'Because you'd be arrested if you did it to an adult' is not a workable justification.
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Not unless its also hypocritical to support life imprisonment for serial killers but not for foetuses.
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You'll do better opposing the death penalty on humanitarian grounds (as I do) than making arguments which don't work logically.
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And supporting abortion on ethical grounds (as I do) than making arguments that don't work logically.
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It matters that arguments work logically especially if they are on behalf of issues you find important.
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Another one I get is 'You're alive because your mother didn't abort you so you must see that abortion is wrong.' WTF?
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I'm also alive because my great-grandfather raped his 14 year old maid. Does that mean we have to think that's morally good now?
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It's hypocritical in the sense that one argument is that all human life is sacred. If that's true, even the worst killer's life is sacred.
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