Uh, all these people calling abortion a holocaust are anti-war and anti-capital punishment, right?

“Uh”? *frown*

1. Embryos are innocent; criminals and our enemies are not. You are attempting to expose an inconsistency than in fact does not exist.

2. “Pro-life” and “pro-choice” (the latter especially) have always been incorrect euphemisms (and in the case of the latter) weasel phrases (choice of WHAT?). The correct terms are always “anti-abortion” and “pro-abortion.” Many anti-abortion activists consider abortion to be murder, hence the obvious use of the word “holocaust,” no worse than (in the case of nuclear power and lies about risks and accidents, much better than) the use of the term “nuclear holocaust” as anti-USA-and-Western-nuclear activists said so often in the 1980s about the US and Western military and about nuclear power plants.

we don’t like “holocaust” used as a generic term for any and all genocides. It’s a proper noun.

The word is not a proper noun, but was capitalized to give a name to Hitler’s extermination of the Jews in Europe. There is a word and there is a name here.

The word has existed since the Middle Ages, long preceding the Holocaust, to which the older meaning of a burnt offering, in a sacrificial sense, is added, poetically or philosophically, to the more recent (1800s-onward) use of the word to mean a massacre or mass slaughter.

If a person like Nixon sincerely believes he is the savior of the world, then anything he does in his own interests or his party’s interests will appear to be in the interests of the world.

That’s exactly where the sinceity yardstick fails.

There is no doubt Nixon was sincere in thinking he was acting in the best interests of his country while he presided over the Watergate mess.

Huh? You do realize what Watergate was all about don’t you?

I don’t think even Nixon would claim he was acting in the best interest of the country and not his campaign.

Okay. Then, if you really believe that Africans are an inferior race, it’s valid to compare them to monkeys?

What matters is not he validity of a comparison but the validity of the premise from which it stems and the consequences thereof.
Therw’s always the tendency to let a debate over semantics overhadow the substance of the debate.

Of course I don’t agree with him, just like I believe in evolution, something he apparently does not. I wonder if anyone has asked him how old he thinks the Earth is?

What those who are sincere in their oppostition to abortion fail to acknowledge is that abortion is very much a class issue. The welathy are not much affected by laws, anyway If abortion is illegal where they live, they can travel to where it is legal to take care of their problem. Not so the poor, who are not only stuck with the consequences, but are criticized for them, to boot.

At the same time, Huckabee expressed what has become apparent in our economic system and society. There is a need for a caste of cheap laborers, and those on top are seeing to it that he need is fulfilled in any way they can.

We are turning back the clock of history by a full century, and many are applauding this as ‘progress’.
Progress, my foot!

ELROD-
People can be sincere and dead wrong at the same time, even malevolent.
There is no doubt Nixon was sincere in thinking he was acting in the best interests of his country while he presided over the Watergate mess.
Bigots are also sincere.
Sincerity is no excuse.

Uh, all these people calling abortion a holocaust are anti-war and anti-capital punishment, right?