{"id":3062,"date":"2007-02-06T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T15:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/violence-begets-violence.html"},"modified":"2007-02-06T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T15:46:48","slug":"violence-begets-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/violence-begets-violence.html","title":{"rendered":"Violence begets violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good words from a Dallas-area pastor. <\/a><\/p>\n

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This utterly utilitarian manipulation of living human beings has now brought us to a debate about what can be done if we are going to throw them away anyway. Now we ask, \u201cWhy not kill them with a purpose?\u201d \u201cWhy don\u2019t we kill them for research?\u201d \u201cThink about all the good we could do if we sacrifice a few for the many?\u201d It\u2019s a shame we can\u2019t ask these nascent human beings their opinion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good words from a Dallas-area pastor. This utterly utilitarian manipulation of living human beings has now brought us to a debate about what can be done if we are going to throw them away anyway. Now we ask, \u201cWhy not kill them with a purpose?\u201d \u201cWhy don\u2019t we kill them for research?\u201d \u201cThink about all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nViolence begets violence - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/violence-begets-violence.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Violence begets violence - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Good words from a Dallas-area pastor. 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