Georg W Bush..
..is as good an argument AGAINST exporting democracy to other countries as it's possible to think of.
Nick:
"A very large number of women in the "Western world" routinely destroy or impair cells that have the potential of new life through birth control devices / drugs"
Yup - and many regileous types consider that a sin.
"A very large number of men routinely waste cells with the potential of human life."
That too.
I think part of some people's problem with stem cell research, cloning and so on is that once mankind can create a human life from, say, a single skin cell the whole 'potential of human life' argument becomes a lot more complicated and those who seek to control our lives through religeon find simple arguments much more effective than complex ones when it comes to bending us to their will.
"It's a divine right to posess a gun, the sole purpose of which is to destroy (usually human) life."
I think it's a constitutional rather than divine right (in the US anyway) and was intended to allow militias to keep arms in order to defend their country from threats like, for example, being bent over and shafted by an ultra-rich elite of oil men and arms dealers hiding behind religeous fundamentalism and fascism-in-the-name-of-security (applied only to those not in that elite group, of course) in order to become ultra-ultra-rich.