Hi Suzette, you have hit on an immensely important issue, part of a larger group of questions that the author is desperately trying to come to grips with: what am I? Who is God? What is the best way to know the difference between a true understanding of the nature of the world and a web of lies?
Hi Suzette, you have hit on an immensely important issue, part of a larger group of questions that the author is desperately trying to come to grips with: what am I? Who is God? What is the best way to know the difference between a true understanding of the nature of the world and a web of lies?
The web of lies has brought him to the brink of trying to disguise himself with a medical “deep fake” so that he can look and maybe feel like a woman- at least not look like a man. He now wants to look at the world as it is even though that pains him immensely.
He is now choosing to look at the world through a Christian lens, which tells him that he is what he was born to be: a man. This lens also says to be honest, kind and generous. Our society generally supports those things. But it also says things about the beginning of our lives that our society doesn’t have consensus on.
I suspect, because his wording resonates with Catholic thought, that his logic goes something like: at conception that which was conceived is alive, is unique and has the capacity to be born, breathe, grow, think, talk, etc. To remove that fetus/potential baby/actual baby from his/her mother’s womb so that he/she will cease to be living sounds like murder.
Our society does not call it murder because we value the mother’s freedom of action over the life of what doesn’t yet look much like a baby- at least during the first trimester.
Our mental picture of murder is informed by books, movies and stories where brutal direct force (say, strangulation) is used to kill an independent child or adult.
Using logic, rather than mental pictures, it is reasonable to call abortion murder. While it it involves a medical procedure, it is more. We may choose not to call it murder, but it not a hernia repair.
One last thought:
Oddly enough, should he have chosen to medically transition, he would be sterilized- as if he had a vasectomy.
Hi Suzette, you have hit on an immensely important issue, part of a larger group of questions that the author is desperately trying to come to grips with: what am I? Who is God? What is the best way to know the difference between a true understanding of the nature of the world and a web of lies?
The web of lies has brought him to the brink of trying to disguise himself with a medical “deep fake” so that he can look and maybe feel like a woman- at least not look like a man. He now wants to look at the world as it is even though that pains him immensely.
He is now choosing to look at the world through a Christian lens, which tells him that he is what he was born to be: a man. This lens also says to be honest, kind and generous. Our society generally supports those things. But it also says things about the beginning of our lives that our society doesn’t have consensus on.
I suspect, because his wording resonates with Catholic thought, that his logic goes something like: at conception that which was conceived is alive, is unique and has the capacity to be born, breathe, grow, think, talk, etc. To remove that fetus/potential baby/actual baby from his/her mother’s womb so that he/she will cease to be living sounds like murder.
Our society does not call it murder because we value the mother’s freedom of action over the life of what doesn’t yet look much like a baby- at least during the first trimester.
Our mental picture of murder is informed by books, movies and stories where brutal direct force (say, strangulation) is used to kill an independent child or adult.
Using logic, rather than mental pictures, it is reasonable to call abortion murder. While it it involves a medical procedure, it is more. We may choose not to call it murder, but it not a hernia repair.
One last thought:
Oddly enough, should he have chosen to medically transition, he would be sterilized- as if he had a vasectomy.