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Personhood is always redefined to
exclude the intended victim class. |
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In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws codified the
exclusion of Jews from German society.
The next year, the Reichsgericht
(Germany's highest court) essentially
legalized the Holocaust. Cartoons
routinely depicted Jews as pigs, dogs,
rats, and other vermin. |
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In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court declared
Blacks "...a subordinate and inferior
class of beings..." in [Dred] Scott
v. Sandford. Black slaves were often
assigned diminutive names, such as
"Mingo," that were normally reserved for
pets. |
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In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court found
that "the word 'person,' as used in the
[Constitution], does not include the
unborn." Today, unwanted children are
spoken of in dehumanizing terms:
"embryo," "fetus," "products of
conception," etc. |
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Genocide often framed in the language of
"choice." |
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The Nazis asserted that the racial
make-up of the German nation was an
internal matter for the German people to
decide. They also emphasized Hitler's
choice, his "Will to Power," as a Nazi
propaganda film put it. |
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In the Senatorial debates of 1858,
Stephen Douglas said that he was
personally opposed to slavery but that
each state should have the right to
choose whether to be a slave state or a
free state. |
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Pro-abortion advocates argue that if
pro-lifers don't like abortions, they
shouldn't have them. Abortion is not
mandated; it is a matter of personal
"choice." |
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Victim class tends to be people who have
what we want or get in our way. |
Eastern Europeans owned land that the
Nazis wanted for lebensraum
("living space") for the German people.
Jews owned material wealth that Nazis
wanted for themselves. |
Blacks owned the work product that slave
owners desired for themselves. The loss
of this uncompensated work product would
deprive slave owners of material wealth
they desired to maintain. |
Killing babies is often justified based
on the desire to acquire material wealth
and /or maintain lifestyle. Babies get
in the way of career development,
women's rights, sexual freedom, etc. |
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Victim class is often seen as a
"disease" on society or as diseased
themselves. |
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"Parasites" and "bacilli" were words
used by Nazis to describe Jews and
others targeted for extermination. |
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Benjamin Rush, a leading American
scientist who personally opposed
slavery, speculated that all blacks were
really leprous, diseased, whites in need
of a cure. |
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In his medical textbook Abortion
Practice, Warren Hern analogizes the
unwanted, unborn child to a disease, the
treatment of choice for which is
abortion. |
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Resources are inadequate to care for
intended victim class if they are
allowed to live. |
The Nazis justified killing "useless
eaters" based on the fact that they were
using up resources needed by the German
people. |
Pro-slavery advocates justified the
continuation of slavery because they
said the slaves, if emancipated, could
not take care of themselves and would be
a drain on society's resources. |
Pro-abortion advocates attempt to
justify abortion by stating that there
are inadequate resources to care for all
unwanted babies if they are not killed
by abortion. |
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