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Re: Hitchens and Dawkins
by shematwater

I understand you, and I think you are a good person. However I have one question.

Now, fifty years ago abortion was rare and illegal (I am only using this as an example, please do not try to discuss abortion). It then became legal in early terms. Now there is no restriction, and some doctors are even performing live birth abortions.

So, my question is this. Without an outside influence (which I call God) that dictates what is wrong and what is right, where will people draw the line? With the example of abortion, with each generation it became increasingly easier for a woman to get one. In another hundred years, when none of us are here, what will it have escelated to? Will they be killing off children of up to one year in age if the mother can't handle them?

Without the underlying morals set forth by an outside influence where would any of the otrosities end?

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