Are You Your Pro Choice or Pro Life?

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I think our public policy and our law is binary. And am, but that's part of the reason why the more i learn, the more i study,. The more i understand about our culture and our politics, am, the less politicized i am. I want to look for alternatives. If people are going to save their pro life, they have at the same time make a concertad effort to to love their neighbour. That means not letting them be killed. But it also means you love your neighbors who are put in the difficult position of having to make that decision.

In their book Science and the Good, professional philosophers James Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The conversation takes a decidedly interesting turn when Drs. Hunter and Nedelisky reveal that they are both theists and that their Christian worldview informs their thinking on moral issues. The three then dig into the weeds of the difference between religious and secular moral systems, the nature of God and morality, why a purely naturalistic approach to morality does not negate religion or even the existence of God (natural law could be God’s way of creating moral values), natural rights and rights theory, consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, progress in philosophy, why philosophers never seem to reach consensus on important subjects like morality, how to think about issues like abortion, why they believe in God and follow the Christian religion and yet reject Divine Command Theory, and much more.