{"id":74330,"date":"2019-12-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=74330"},"modified":"2019-12-04T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T20:56:06","slug":"the-benefits-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/11\/the-benefits-of-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words On Wednesday: The benefits of the law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week on Facebook I was on a thread which was discussing abortion. One person said that they believed abortion killed a human life, but she also thought it should be legal. This seemed like a very strange opinion to hold, so I asked why she thought this way. The response I received was as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;Ethical behaviour is not brought about law, all that brings is the fear of being caught.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><cite>Person on Facebook, explaining why abortion should remain legal<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I responded to this using my favourite Martin Luther quotation&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MLK.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MLK.jpg 800w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MLK-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MLK-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that&#8217;s pretty important.\u201d<\/p><cite>Martin Luther King Jr.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week on Facebook I was on a thread which was discussing abortion. One person said that they believed abortion killed a human life, but she also thought it should be legal. This seemed like a very strange opinion to hold, so I asked why she thought this way. The response I received was as follows: &#8220;Ethical behaviour is not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[232,1134,2986],"class_list":["post-74330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-abortion","tag-law","tag-martin-luther-king"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74332,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74330\/revisions\/74332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}