{"id":9118,"date":"2012-12-23T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/23\/gun-lovers-and-abortion-lovers\/"},"modified":"2012-12-23T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T14:00:01","slug":"gun-lovers-and-abortion-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/23\/gun-lovers-and-abortion-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Lovers and Abortion Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

One often hears  liberals refer to gun owners as gun lovers<\/em>.  Would they refer to pro-choicers as abortion lovers<\/em>?  I don't think so.  Why the differential usage?  Is it just liberal bias?<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are pro-choice, then you stand for the right<\/em> of a woman to have an abortion.  You want abortion to be legally permissible<\/em>.  The maintenance of such a stance is consistent with wanting there to be fewer abortions.  The following is a logically consistent position: "It would be better if there were fewer or no abortions, but women ought to have the right to choose for themselves."<\/span><\/p>\n

The analogy with guns is fairly close.  The following is a logically consistent position: "It would be better if there were fewer or no guns in civilian hands, but citizens ought to have the right to keep and bear arms if they so choose."  <\/span><\/p>\n

I am making a point about political rhetoric.  Unless you liberals are prepared to call pro-choicers abortion lovers<\/em>, you ought not call gun owners gun lovers.  If, that is, you are interested in a calm, serious, truth-seeking discussion.  A big 'if'!<\/span><\/p>\n

Lest any of my conservative friends get the wrong idea, I am (obviously) not maintaining that abortion and gun ownership are on a moral par, that both are morally permissible, and that both ought to be legally permissible.  Not at all.  Abortion is a grave moral evil.  Gun ownership is not.  In fact, in some situations gun ownership may be morally obligatory.  (But brevity is the soul of blog, so the exfoliation and defence of this latter suggestion belongs elsewhere.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One often hears  liberals refer to gun owners as gun lovers.  Would they refer to pro-choicers as abortion lovers?  I don't think so.  Why the differential usage?  Is it just liberal bias? If you are pro-choice, then you stand for the right of a woman to have an abortion.  You want abortion to be legally … Continue reading “Gun Lovers and Abortion Lovers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,112,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}