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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Frank Turek :: Townhall.com Columnist
Politically Correct Torture
by Frank Turek
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Why does he want to do this?  Doesn’t he know what goes on in an abortion?  I have to assume yes.  He’s a very intelligent man.  That leaves us with one of two possibilities, neither of which is good. Either he really believes that scalding, dismembering, and de-braining ought to subsidized and increased, or he is willing to champion these things to please his base for his own political gain.  The former is madness.  The latter is an example of “the ends justifying the means,” which leads us back to waterboarding.

Questions for the President: 

Why do the ends justify the means if they protect you with your base, but the ends don’t justify the means if they protect the American People?

Why do you think that waterboarding the guilty is immoral, but subsidizing the killing of the innocent is the right thing to do?   

I’m not intending to be uncharitable, and I hope I am mistaken.  But it appears to me that this President is willing to subsidize the killing of the innocent to potentially save himself, but is unwilling to simulate drowning on the guilty to potentially save thousands or millions of Americans—a simulation that we have performed on our own servicemen for decades.

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Frank Turek is the award-winning author or coauthor of three books including Correct, Not Politically Correct: How Same-Sex Marriage Hurts Everyone and I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. His TV show airs Mondays at 8 pm ET on DirecTV, Channel 378. To learn more visit www.CrossExamined.org.
 
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Caminintx writes:
Since waterboarding has not been declared a lawful sanction

It was declared lawful here by the President and conveyed to both Dems & Repubs in Congress. Who cares about the UN. They do not create our laws.

Aniko writes:

It is complete ignorance to bestow qualifications of “human being” on a cell, or cluster of cells, when in essence it is as far from being a human being as a virus is, except of course for its DNA

Alot of wasted space...simple response is...You are wrong!!!!

Human being?
The most difficult part in defining a human being is whether a human being is purely a physical entity or physical plus HUMAN spirit. The indefinable is the “spirit” or the form of energy that differentiates an existing entity versus a “living” entity. “Living” best defined is consciously experiencing, or storing ephemeral experiences. A form of life is defined by its DNA structure, as we know by now. Each DNA strand of a human cell is a potential human body-part. A differentiated cluster of cells, called an embryo is a potential human being. If we define full “human life”, at starting at the level of human DNA strands, than a human ovum or a sperm is already a potential human being. To discard any of these, according to your definition can be considered “murder”.
I define murder, not only the cessation of organ(s) function, but the cessation of the “spirit” (whatever THAT means). The criminality of murdering the “spirit” unfortunately has never been defined.
The spirit manifests itself in a living physical human being, after it is capable to survive OUTSIDE the womb. None of us know when the human "spirit" begins to exist. Philosophically, the spirit does not exist when it has no ephemeral manifestations, such as will, decision, or “feelings”. Essentially it does not exist, until such manifestations are perceptible.
It is complete ignorance to bestow qualifications of “human being” on a cell, or cluster of cells, when in essence it is as far from being a human being as a virus is, except of course for its DNA. At that stage, at best, it is a "potential" human being. The key in all of this is “potential”. I don’t think that every physical form of existence of a human DNA can be equated with the definition of a "human being" and be equated to a living, breathing but also thinking, and feeling human being.
Abortion of an embryo does not fit the criteria of “murdering or torturing” of a human being.
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