i don't choose my friends because it's "fair". fairness is ... a category error for friendship. i choose my friends based on ... oh, it's complicated, but it has a lot to do with what delights me, and with what i want to surround myself in life, what sorts of things i want close to me. it's completely not fair, because perfectly decent people who bore me stiff will never be my friends, no matter whether we agree on abortion or not. *wry grin*.
so i have friends who cover a wide range of the spectrum of beliefs. and yup, some are anti-abortion and some are pro-choice, some of them would never have an abortion, and some have had one -- but none of them bomb abortion clinics, or have casual abortions instead of birth control, or kill others in wars of aggression, because those are not things that delight me, and i view such actions as representing large enough character flaws that other traits are unlikely to make up for it. i don't want to be close with such people.
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Date: 2006-08-08 02:16 am (UTC)so i have friends who cover a wide range of the spectrum of beliefs. and yup, some are anti-abortion and some are pro-choice, some of them would never have an abortion, and some have had one -- but none of them bomb abortion clinics, or have casual abortions instead of birth control, or kill others in wars of aggression, because those are not things that delight me, and i view such actions as representing large enough character flaws that other traits are unlikely to make up for it. i don't want to be close with such people.