Unbridled9 posted... HEY! Human sacrifice isn't evil! How else are we supposed to forstall the endtimes if our gods don't have their daily diet of blood?
Plus there have seriously been people advocating for utilizing humans as part of the food process. That one I'm being serious about. 'Human composting' being the most common one, but I have definitely heard at least one person argue humans should go Soylant Green/Glagar's Human Rinds on everybody cause 'it's just meat' and 'we'll need it to help with future food shortages'. Suffice to say I think a LOT of people would have problems with that (especially religious people). But yea, while tradition and the respect of it has it's place in society, especially as part of a population's cultural identity, just because something happened in the past and was considered 'okay' at least for a while does not mean it IS right. Especially since you're effectively cherry-picking the cultures in which abortion was considered 'okay' and ignoring the ones that didn't. Plus said cultures where it was also usually had women being far less equal to men than the situation today. If we were to say that abortion is okay because of them, then why should we also reject their notions of gender equality?
abortion happened on equivalent levels in all cultures regardless of whether or not it was considered morally permissible