Push for postpartum “abortion”?
On Glenn Beck Show, they describe the views of some liberal
Well, frankly, I wish all liberals were like this. To borrow the words of Harry S. Alford, at least that way we know who to keep our eyes on.
At some level, we could put monetary values on human and animal life. For example, your guard dog could be guarding a house filled with items of total worth $100,000. Or, more precisely, you could calculate how much it would cost you to hire a guard instead of having a dog ($10 to $20 per hour). So, the guard dog is worth that much to you. On the other hand, your grandma (or a spouse) who is on life support could be costing you some X number of dollars per day to you. I don't know the exact numbers, but let's say it's $100 per day. Then your grandma is worth minus $100 per day to you, every day of her life.
But should your values and moral compass be based on some dodgy accounting? Should you put your trust in an "accounting system" for your morals which says that your guard dog is worth more than your invalid child? Does that make sense to you, at the fundamental level?
It doesn't matter what your religion is or what your moral values are in specific issues. All of us humans (who are not sophists or liberals) have some innate feeling that a human being is, in all cases, worth more than any other life or material possessions. Sometimes it is necessary that we make the comparison between a human life and things of material value (for example, to compensate victims of some large accident), but that is done strictly on the sense of what monetary value he would have been worth to the victim's family's, not what his innate value itself was.
But then, I guess for a liberal moral relativist, nothing really has any fundamental value in and of itself, so he is forced to measure even human life to money, the universal metric of worth in his atheist, secular world. In this liberal, we see how our value system would change in an atheist world. Ask yourself: is this a world you want to live in?