ethics.

i just watched freakonomics. it honestly is so interesting and mind-blowing how different correlations and relationships are made through the analysis of numbers and data. statistics is very powerful stuff. in the film/book, they talk about a specific study done on the decline of crime rates during the 1980s. Many experts and analysts said it was due to innovative policing, harsher sentences, decline of crack, gun control, blah blah etc etc. they basically took everything relevant to the concept of crime and said that it was due to all these reasons that crime rates fell. it wuldnt take a genius to figure something out like that. Levitt, one of the authors dug a little deeper, and found a high correlation with the ruling on Roe v. Wade (abortion case). random huh. but he explained it and it made sense. since abortion was made legal, unwanted babies were aborted instead of concieved. looking at the data, unwanted babies more likely grew up to be criminals, so by making abortion legal, these criminals were never born, thus bringing down criminal rates. Such conclusion is further supported by looking at states where abortions were more accesible, and it was found that in these states, crime rates fell sooner and more rapidly.

this is where i began to think.... if abortion is proved to have lowered crime rates, why dont we (we as in society as a whole) support it more enthusiastically? this is where ethics come in to play. do we kill babies to prevent murders? or do we save babies, and sacrifice increasing crime rates? where do we draw the line? basically, whose life is worth more?

im a simple guy. i honestly dont have a firm stance big controversial issues such as abortion (homosexuality, i do, but thats a different story). i may want to sound smart and say something abortion and what my stance is on it, but honestly, i dont really have much to say about it. when i look at it from my christian perspective, i often find the concept of ethics to be wrong, as it based solely on what i think is right versus wrong. This takes God completely out of the picture, and puts me in his stead, making my own judgement calls. blasphemous. rather than ethical reasoning, i want to seek God first, and allow my thoughts and views be in tune with what God wants me to do.

however, the bible obviously doenst address issues such as abortion head on, so what do i do? what does God do?