Rock and Roll Encore

I'll make this brief, since the bus is running and I need to get on with the afternoon's rock and roll debauchery on my 'Feed The World... Says Me 2005 World Tour,' sponsored by Virgin Mobile, the Sierra Club, and Hooters.

You attempted to equate abortion with war and capital punishment, two types of killing to which you are opposed. I guess I am baffled at how you rationalize one type of killing as allowable and another as not allowable, but leave that for now.

I never said that one type of killing is allowable and another isn't. In several different examples, I was simply trying to illustrate that they're all horrible and — unfortunately — continuously happening, no matter how much we wish they weren't. All we can do is try to reduce the occurrence each of these as much as possible. Sorry you missed my point.

I noticed that you didn't touch this one — which I'll pre-clarify as an illustration of how so many of us here in America differentiate between the different ways we justify the termination of life — so I'll post it once again as a final reprise:

By clearly separating killing and murder in the scenarios of abortion, capital punishment, and war, are you actually saying that while life is sacred, it becomes less sacred as you get older, as you do bad things, or if you live on the land of an American enemy? Just wondering.

And that's all folks. Buy an official tour t-shirt on the way out!