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Human or Tumor?

Posted by TheRationalRight on Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:32:22 PM
A woman in her first trimester of pregnancy is driving to an Ob/Gyn appointment. At a stoplight, someone walks up to her car and shoots her in the head, killing her instantly.

Is the shooter guilty of one murder or two?

Roe vs. Wade effectively states that only a pregnant woman can determine whether the fetus inside her is a human life or a parasitic tumor. If she was on the way to a prenatal checkup to ensure that she and her fetus were healthy, she clearly thought of him or her as a baby human, which therefore should result in a double homicide charge. If she was on the way to have the fetus removed, she clearly thought of the fetus as a non-human mass, which therefore should not result in an additional homicide charge.

In both scenarios, the action committed by the shooter is the same. In both scenarios, the outcome of the action is the same as well.  So how can one action that causes one outcome result in two possible consequences?

That just doesn’t seem right.

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Solving Social Security

Posted by TheRationalRight on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:52:23 PM
Most Americans will acknowledge that Social Security is dwindling and is unlikely to provide funds for those whose retirement will not come for 20 years or so. This is a mathematical analysis of the problem.

From its inception, two things had to happen for Social Security to remain viable.
Number 1: Average life expectancy had to remain predictably consistent.

Number 2: The birthrate had to remain predictably consistent.
Instead, here’s what happened.
Number 1: People began living longer. In 1936 average life expectancy was 611 (4 years prior to retirement age), meaning that contributors did not expect to collect benefits at all. In 2007, average life expectancy was 782 (13 years past retirement age), meaning that most contributors now expect to collect Social Security benefits for more than a decade.
Number 2: Abortion became legal, and millions of pregnancies were terminated. Had these pregnancies been carried to term, there would be roughly 20 million3 more people in the workforce today contributing a portion of their paychecks into the Social Security pool.
To fix the problem, there are two possible solutions.
Option 1: Start terminating lives at a certain point after retirement in order to reduce the pool of Social Security recipients.
Option 2: Stop terminating lives before birth in order to increase the pool of Social Security contributors.
From a purely mathematical perspective, where Social Security is concerned, we are killing people at the wrong end of the life cycle.
 
 
 
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