It's All In The Definition

When we humans commit a heinous crimes on a large scale, we do it in such a way as to be able to say that we're not committing heinous crime. It's as simple as changing the definition of the crime.

The Nazis knew what murder was and the laws of Germany rightly called murder a crime, but the Nazis taught that the Poles and Jews and Russians were not human- but subhuman. And since the definition of murder is to kill a human, they weren't really committing murder, because their victims weren't human.

Of course, those were the Nazis and we are not Nazis, we are moral and compassionate- we are Americans and would never do what the Nazis did. Or, would we?

If we call a person "fetal tissue," then the person is no longer a person. And since it's no longer a person, it is now merely a part of a person. And that person (the mother) can choose to have it removed, like a skin blemish or a tumor. But that is not considered a murderous act, because it's not a person, it's only fetal tissue.

If Hitler were alive, he'd approve- I'm sure.