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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Not sure I'd go this far. Would you say there is no non-religious theory (I'll ignore the conservative part for now) for opposition to the death penalty? You can have ethics without religion.
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Of course. I said "coherent" theory. Anything that talks about a sliding scale and balancing rights is probably non-religious, but it's also not coherent, except in the law school sense that it will provide some future court with some mumbo jumbo to justify a result. The idea that "life" (whatever that means) begins at conception, or that there is a discernable day at which one goes from "non-objectionable medical procedure" to "murder," is necessarily spiritual in nature.
