I was just watching these Right wingers (pro lifers) talk about there views on

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5. Their reasoning devolves around assumptions about "innocence" and "guilt". Fetuses,

being the most innocent and the least powerful, rate the the most effort and resources in their defense.

Criminals are assumed to have chosen in many ways to be criminals, or at least not to have resisted evil influences, and the only way for that to change is by means of punishment, either as an object lesson to miscreants or to those around them whom we are to assume would follow the same path if they don't learn about negative consequences.

It is assumed that there are clearly definable lines when it comes to the differences between behavioral choices and the responsibility of other influences, evil and good influences, so I/you/we have no part in anyone else's guilty "choices". Whatever, however much, we have to do with the circumstances that lead to bad behavioral choices, those choices are still entirely free choices, a matter of will toward evil intended by the persons making those "choices" and we have no responsibility in that, or at least none that matters.

All of that is an extension of the assumption that if you "get away with it" it's okay, so if you didn't "get away with it", that's because it wasn't okay and we shouldn't interfere with this law of the universe.