Abortion, Murder, Death Penalty ...
Three distinctly different ways another person can be killed. While it is interesting and sometimes useful to compare our opinions on the validity of all three, we must keep in mind that each comes with clear and distinct differences.
- Abortion - obviously the dead in this case is given no choice - but there are, obviously, other considerations that we as a society have debated for quite some time. Wont' get into that in this forum. But just making the obvious point that the dead don't choose this fate.
- Murder - truly evil, the dead is given no choice whatsoever and the murderer takes life/death choice fully into his/her own hands
- Death Penalty - the dead in this case had a choice, and chose to commit a crime knowing (usually) that consequences of this crime could be punishment by death. This is why I don't agree that the Death Penalty can be compared equally to Abortion or Murder. It is too different, with a different set of "qualifying factors".