I'm pointing out a simple truism: I know decent pro-life people.
Given that, I dismiss the rantings of anyone who claims that the great majority of pro-life people are evil as delusional, and usually all claims made by that person after that point. I'll argue that not only is this a foolish tactic, but that it's saying something that's actively wrong, and that losses you more ground than it gains you. I also think that trying to describe a large, complex, political movement as simply "evil" in nature, not that their actions lead to bad things but that they themselves are bad people, is morally wrong. If this were an ethnic divide, they would be the precursors to genocide, but fortunately things are not yet that dire. I just don't want them to become that way.
I'll also point out an analogy: I said much the same thing to the neo-cons. When they said that the terrorists "were evil and hated our freedoms", I warned them that they were oversimplifying the case, that these were people who actually believed in a combination of Islamism and nationalism, and ethnocultural identity. That was seven years ago, and now we're busily involved in two wars that are slowly destroying our nation's ability to compete.
Now I have a lot more faith in the pro-choice movement than I do in the neocons, but it's a good warning. Keep in mind that whatever evil they do, they do with good intentions. You can be as horrified about it as you like, but it adds another layer of complexity to any strategy you're going to undertake to root them out.
You have the right to be as horrified as you want. I'm only warning people about mistaking their justifications. I actually think we agree a lot more than it sounds like we do (although we would pretty much have to).
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Given that, I dismiss the rantings of anyone who claims that the great majority of pro-life people are evil as delusional, and usually all claims made by that person after that point. I'll argue that not only is this a foolish tactic, but that it's saying something that's actively wrong, and that losses you more ground than it gains you. I also think that trying to describe a large, complex, political movement as simply "evil" in nature, not that their actions lead to bad things but that they themselves are bad people, is morally wrong. If this were an ethnic divide, they would be the precursors to genocide, but fortunately things are not yet that dire. I just don't want them to become that way.
I'll also point out an analogy: I said much the same thing to the neo-cons. When they said that the terrorists "were evil and hated our freedoms", I warned them that they were oversimplifying the case, that these were people who actually believed in a combination of Islamism and nationalism, and ethnocultural identity. That was seven years ago, and now we're busily involved in two wars that are slowly destroying our nation's ability to compete.
Now I have a lot more faith in the pro-choice movement than I do in the neocons, but it's a good warning. Keep in mind that whatever evil they do, they do with good intentions. You can be as horrified about it as you like, but it adds another layer of complexity to any strategy you're going to undertake to root them out.
You have the right to be as horrified as you want. I'm only warning people about mistaking their justifications. I actually think we agree a lot more than it sounds like we do (although we would pretty much have to).