How do you justify favoring the death penalty, but opposing abortion?Because I am an American, which means I like to kill, and I am a conservative, which means I only like to kill certain people.
Your question has been answered far more seriously than you think. The american pastime is not baseball or lawsuits. It is killing. It is bipartisan, too. Law and order, pro-military conservatives like me want to kill those who do others harm, like criminals and enemy combatants. Progressives want to kill those perceived as useless burdens, like the unborn and the infirmed. Progressives cannot decide exactly if embryos qualify, so they slaughter them for stem cells just to keep their bases covered. Between the two political persuasions, we have a crosshairs on everyone and everything.
Try it. Take any issue. We will say animal rights. Some think it is great to kill animals for food, clothing, research, or sport. Animal rights activists would just as soon we all starve to death eating leaves and set human rights back sixty-five years by experimenting on humans instead of lab mice. That sounds like a formula for long, happy lives, does it not? No matter what the issue is, taken to its logical conclusion, the respective advocates want something dead in the end.
That is why the first of the Ten Commandments not to pertain to god or family directly is thou shall not murder. He knew our preoccupation with the concept.
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