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Quote by: Captain Chaos I believe that all morals can be traced back to instinct in one fashion or another. We have a very powerful instinct to protect the young of our species, and this drives us to oppose things like infanticide. |
Don't discount religion either. As a passive form of government, religion in most forms has maintained it is wrong to kill. The main reason I suspect is to prevent the chaos which would ensue if there was no such prohibition. Religion/government requires order, and lawlessness, in this case murder, interferes with order.
I still think it is a dumb basis for a discussion, as there can't be much opposition to the fact that murder is wrong on MANY levels and most answers (including mine) will simply be rehashes of the same point. As I mentioned earlier, infanticide is just a different KIND of murder so it is bound by the same oppositions to the act. Infanticide=murder. Murder=wrong. Conclusion: ANY murder is wrong. Singling baby killing as somehow different is a construction of the thread starter and irrelevant to the root argument. This is why it looks like bait for an abortion thread, which would end up the same as the rest.