The Lengths to Which Some Go

By Seth -
I appreciate logical consistency. Sometimes, though, the desire to be consistent with one's pet views may lead to conclusions which are humorous, baffling---or even terrifying.

I recently posted a survey on the Created Equal Facebook page asking the following question: When it comes to killing toddlers, are you pro-choice or anti-choice?

The options:
- Pro-Choice: I trust people to decide for themselves.
- Anti-Choice: I oppose killing toddlers.

Normally, this is a question upon which abortion advocates and opponents are united. While they disagree on the value of life in the womb, most agree that it is wrong to kill born children (exceptions include Peter Singer of Princeton).

Admitting that common ground, however, is a dangerous step for the abortion advocate---for it does not take long to get from "it is wrong to kill toddlers" to "it is wrong to kill the preborn."

Because of this, many who would personally rise to action if someone were actually to dismember a toddler will say on paper that they are "pro-choice" when it comes to toddler killing. In an effort to be logically consistent with their views that a mother should have the "right to choose," they open their world to endless atrocity.

This is what is currently taking place with our toddler-killing survey. While it seems unimaginable that some individuals would actually say they "trust people to decide" whether or not to kill their toddlers, five individuals have already voted this way.

These five individuals find themselves in a dilemma. Their intuition tells them that it's wrong to kill toddlers. Yet, they also yearn to be logically consistent with their abortion advocacy.

They have to decide between the two. And, he and four others have chosen logical consistency, which is to advocate not only for the abortion of the preborn but also for the termination of the born.

Current tally: 52 to 5. Anti-Choice is still ahead, but those 5 votes do terrify me.

** This article formerly contained a quote from an individual who'd made the following comment on the survey: "If you vote anti-choice, you hate women." What I did not know was that this comment was meant as satire and the author thereof is pro-life. I apologize for what was my mistake.

Comments

  1. SteveApril 13, 2011 at 8:12 AM

    I wondered if some people just saw the "pro-choice / anti-choice" survey and clicked pro-choice without actually reading the question.

    Or, whether anyone would interpret "toddler" as a "pro-life code word for fetus," so they were still answering the question in regards to the unborn. Actually, I guess that's kind of what you're saying; they can see where the question is headed, so they "protect" their answer for one scenario by selecting an answer they really don't believe for another scenario.

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  2. SethApril 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM

    Steve, you said it better than me. I think that is exactly what is going on---that they "protect" their abortion view by saying something they don't really believe. (Although, as you noted, I can't rule out the possibility that they just didn't read the entire question.)

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