@Reagaknight,
Reagaknight;14646 wrote:That is the way polls work. Were all Amerians to be interviewed, the polls would take forever. So, people are randomly selected from the population with targets on specific numbers of a race or religion or gender if possible or desirble. Anyway, once the pollsters do what they have to do, theymanage to come up with a representative result system. And all species think of their own in these terms. Wolves will not hold human life in high regard if they are starving and the human is easy prey. So, humans, as predators at the top of the food chain, may use earthworms for their purposes to get food. Killing their own species, to speak of it in the same terms, is not natural. no one has any right to kill anything for no reason, including animals. Let's take hunting for sport for example. If you hunt something you aren't going to eat or use for other purposes (assuming this is possible to do with the animal), IMO, you should not be hunting it. There are other outlets of sport. Likewise there are other options besides abortion, so why kill your own species, so to speak?
Yes I agree with every point. Although I have heard of instances of chimpazees killing each other. My theory would they are doing so for the survival of one specific group of chimps vs. another.
Instead of just agreeing, I will actually state my opinion.
Man is truly, according to the laws of nature, an animal first and foremost. Fortunately through evolution (I define evolution as evidence of life energy at work), we developed conveniences. When no longer posed with hunger, as a primary obession, we had more time to think. Through that thinking, man ( as an animal) felt the urge (or need) to question, and developed a world view based on "something larger than themselves".
So as animal our primary goal is life. At the primal level, we all do this. Why do some go to a job they do not like? Survival or happiness. However, man commits suicide. I would be suspect to find that in the animal world. It may happen but probably not for the reasons man does.
Now, regarding abortion. I truly do not care if the child is a child or not. IMO, for me, I cannot possibly tell anyone else, who is fully conscious, what to do with their body.
If I was personally responsible I would try to persuade my sexual partner. Not force, not arrest, etc...persuade....I think I could pose a good argument to her. If she chooses to have an abortion, legally in America, she can. If she did, I would question who I choose as sexual partners.
Plain and simple....If you feel you are mature enough to have sex, then you IMO you should feel you are responsible enough to handle the consequences.
How many times would you really have sex, if before the act, you asked, oh hey by the way, in case you get pregnant will you have an abortion or keep child? In this instance I am using a "one night stand". My point: we need mature sexual behavior. Not by age, or marriage, but through knowledge and education.