Faun
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"To you it isn't murder"That's where you're wrong. The poster wasn't protesting. He was calling abortion, "legalized murder." There is no such thing.Really? You need to see more definitions...?ox·y·mo·ron
/ˌäksəˈmôrˌän/
noun
- a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).
Legal -- allowed by law
Murder -- not allowed by lawox·y·mo·ronand you will notice that the example for oxymoron you cite gives exact grammatical opposites of one another where as:/ˌäksəˈmôrˌän/
noun
- a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).
shows no such thing which means it must be your own creation...i.e. you are citing yourself as proof which of course makes your claim oxymoronic minus the oxy...Legal -- allowed by law
Murder -- not allowed by law
..I think you know you have been figured out and exposed and trapped on this one, your only options now are to squirm in the trap until the pain over takes you or gnaw your leg off and slither away.
Legal
Conforming to the law; required or permitted by law; not forbidden by law.
Murder
The unlawful killing of another human being without justification or excuse.
^ Again Faun, the people protesting abortion as murder
ARE saying "it is taking something ILLEGAL (murder)"
and "making it LEGAL".
That's the whole point of why they are protesting!
Similar to advocates against the death penalty who call it
"state sanctioned murder". It is called HOMICIDE, that's
what is written on the autopsy of people executed by the state.
So in protest of these executions considered "no different from murder"
those opponents ALSO argue AGAINST executions as "legalized murder"
That IS the whole point - they ARE ARGUING
executions are TAKING MURDER WHICH IS ILLEGAL
and TREATING IT AS IF IT'S LEGAL.
Dear Faun the conflict is where you and others
don't talk about abortion the same way. To you
it isn't murder so it isn't "murder being made legal"
because it's not murder in the first place!
To someone who sees it no different from murder,
then not criminalizing or banning is the equivalent
of treating this act of "murder" as LEGAL.
Of course there's no such thing IN YOUR WORLD.
But from the viewpoints of others, it's like not
prosecuting rape or it's like allowing child abuse
to go on as if that's acceptable. But in this case
with people who treat abortion as seriously as murder,
it's unthinkable why society would approve that to be legal!
Faun can you understand this from the viewpoint of
someone who doesn't think of it the way you do?
That's where the impasse is coming from.
If you both just talk about it from your own perspective,
OF COURSE it's not going to make sense to the other person!
Dumbass, this has nothing to do with me.It's the law. The law determines that murder is the unlawful killing of a human being. Abortion is legal. Therefore, it cannot be murder.
Words have meaning. It would truly benefit you to learn them.