Why would you want to force someone to have a kid? The sane person asks

FreshAir · Feb 22, 2017

VanishingPoint said: ↑

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others, Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Notes on the State of Virginia, adding, But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Now, while it certainly does one no harm for her neighbor to simply assert this viewpoint or that, it does both pick her pocket and break her legor worsewhen her neighbors views are dangerous delusions that are then enshrined in law.

Jefferson was indeed wrong; it does us all injury for our neighbors to claim any kind of moral authority because of an otherworldly being and his/hers/its direct and personal messages. The problem with such a thing is that one cant challenge a claim that by definition is without falsifiable evidence, and therefore any act can be justified.

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many in the religious right think women should be forced to have babies as a punishment for having sex

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