WHY I WOULD NEVER PLAY “I WOULD NEVER”: Uh, hello. I realized that this post, written in a state of post-debate lethargic, self-indulgent wrath, broke at least two of the rules for not being awful on the Internets: 1) Don’t psychoanalyze anyone, especially but not exclusively people you don’t know, especially if you think your take on them is so very clever; and

2) Don’t tell people you “genuinely don’t understand how” they believe what they do. Nothing’s more frustrating than being told you’re not merely wrong but unimaginable. I don’t find any defenses of a Christian abortion-neutral perspective even remotely persuasive given the events of the Gospels, but yeah, I’m not so desperately ingrown that I can’t imagine why someone would believe otherwise, and I shouldn’t’ve affected that intellectual naivete.