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Originally Posted by Giggley_Girl
I am not sure Punky has decided fully how he chooses to live his life. He contradicts himself in almost every post. I feel he wants to believe in a "natural law", and live as an anti-socialist, but maybe he is having a difficult time in adapting wholly to that life??
I find many of his comments confusing due to the fact that I am not sure that he is sure of what his beliefs are.
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That is for the most part true. I don't know about all the contradictions, but my views on the world around me are constantly changing and being modified or dropped completely due to some new fact or experiance. Is this what all 21 year olds go through mentally? Confusion, uncertainty, and are in alotta grey zones on issues? that's how I feel @ times for sure.
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Originally Posted by zteccc
I guess I didn't ask my question well. What I meant is that in "natural law" there is no such thing as "murder." As such, then there wouldn't be any reason to bother with whether one murder or two were comitted; simply something died. Differentiating that two murders occurred as opposed to one means that the term "murder" is meaningfull in a legal sense, but such a term doesn't appear to exist under the philosophy you've presented. Why then did you bother to make and later justify the argument that killing a pregnant woman would be two murders?
-- Jeff
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"Murder" is a man-made term w/ a moral(perhaps legal) connotation, but I generally go along w/ it as interchangable w/ the word killing. So when I saw the question it translated to me as: "Should the
killing of a pregnant woman count as one
death or two?" With whatever moral/legal overtones to be applied there after by whoever. hypothetically, if I was forced to do jury duty that is how I would of had to approach it.
I do not absolutely adhere to natural law. I prefer natural law to government, but that doesn't necessarily make natural law overall favorable to me -sorry if that was the impression. I'd prefer the communal potential of anarchy to out right natural law as of the moment.