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Dear Domo,

I have to wonder sometimes why it is that a lot of non Christian pro choicers value the quality of life for women. Christianity being a cross to a vampire in the debate of abortion, I looked to different prespectives and arrive to the same conclusion. If a woman aborts, she can seek her career, she can have a happy life and raise kids when she wants to. Even still, the endings for us are all the same. We are all equal in death. Even if we become famous celebrities, happy with life, and successful, we will share the same fate as someone who was abused all their life, that didn't appreciate life and was always pushed to the edge. The happy human being and the unhappy human being share the same fate, and thus our end is ultimately is neither happy nor sad. It is terminated, and we will eventually feel nothing.

And so why therefore looking at life from a non religious standpoint, would the ability for a woman to live "life to her fullest " matter when it is temporary, and when she dies she will have no ability to comprehend, or appreciate the life that she has had? If we are all fated to die, why does it matter? Does aborting a fetus provide the better ending if we are to be equal in fate? If we look at existence from a secular understanding, then why does it matter? All that you gained from aborting the fetus in your life will not ammount nothing to you either way, as you will ultimately for better for worse, for happier or for sadder, end up with the same ending as you would if you hadn't aborted. You will eventually have no care for what happens to you either way, and that is as far as can be proven. So why do we care if the woman is oppressed? Why do we care if she is burdened now when her legacy and feelings will eventually cease to have meaning to her, let alone others?


If the world should be so secular then what is the point of living a life that makes us happy when it will all end for all of us? Maybe secularism isn't the right word. Perhaps the word I secular isn't correct but no other ideology came to mind, but I hope the point I was trying to make didn't get lost in my potential in ability to articulate the way I want to. I'm still learning.

That's very poetic, but I didn't understand. Well if it is all to end then how does life grow and continue. Again trying to maintain a sense of secularity, religious concepts such as afterlife and God cannot be used, since they cannot be proven with any research methods such science today. And life has no purpose for us if it's purpose is strictly to itself. I just don't understand how it'd matter if a woman lives a horrible life because she didn't abort when her end will be the same as she hadn't, and in both endings she won't care about her life expiriences because she is no longer capable of doing so.

Actually to a religious person there is no end because they beleive in becomming immortal after death.

But the main point is that, even though you are trying to look at this from a secular viewpoint, what you are actually looking at is the secular view from a religious viewpoint.

But you can assess value after the movie because you are capable of recreating the image of the movie in your mind, and can with your mind make comparisongs




But that makes no sense because to beleive in eternity is to beleive in no end.



But your logic being that the for religion the end is more important, while also admitting that there IS no end from a religious viewpoint. Therefore how could it be looking at a secular viewpoint from a religious viewpoint?



That reasoning is rather circular. When thinking about God or an eternity no longer existing it's not the who, how, or where the end happens, simply that it happens.

What is the purpose of having a gratifying life when you will eventually no longer be able to comprehend or appreciate it when dead?

you don't get the point of the words then- why you why me, why anything? the point is that it is, and that is all the point it needs to be.

why does it need to be more?