curious...
earlier sarah posted about some woman having her 18th kid and how she thinks the world is overpopulated. Who here has read Freakonomics? They did a study that showed abortion reduced crime because it reduced the number of unwanted kids who grow up to be criminals.
Here is the question:
Today the magic powers of tumblr makes you the supreme commander of whatever country you currently reside.
Would the pragmatic nature of legalized abortion be enough for you to support a woman’s right to an abortion? And since this is a discussion about CRIME, if you do not believe such a pragmatic solution is morally justified in your realm of good and evil, HOW would you go about reducing crime?
It’s Friday, what else are you doing besides reading Tumblr? Go.
The Freakonomics explanation is based on correlation. There is not an absolute and simple causal relationship between abortion and crime rates. Therefore foodinmouth is positing a question which, alas, once again confuses causal with contributory factors, a logical fallacy that many students of logic find it difficult to avoid in early days of their pursuits.
1 month ago