This book focuses on the relationship between public morality
and personal action in the American political community. It
emphasizes the responsibilities of citizens and government to find
and confirm truth, looking to specific sources: religious scripture
and empirical events. Recognizing that we have a natural preference
for distraction and distance from both sources of truth, Slack uses
qualitative, open-ended interviews and direct observation to
uncover the intimate consequences of life-taking in open
societies.
Abortion and murder/capital punishment are instances in which
there is a sequence of events that result in life-taking. The act
of murder denies the sanctity of life of someone else. Abortion and
capital punishment also deny the sanctity of the lives of others.
The intimacy of life-taking is not typically acknowledged or
remains hidden. This makes it difficult to assess the consequences
for victims, survivors, and the political community as a whole. As
a result, there is only a tenuous link between public actions that
question the sanctity of human life and the moral compass professed
by the American democracy.
The volume presumes a theocentric foundation envisioned by the
American Founders. It explores the model's first source of truth,
biblical scripture, as it applies to the public actions of murder,
abortion, and capital punishment. Then it investigates the intimate
reality of these acts. These realities are examined in a variety of
settings, resulting in a mosaic pattern of public action about
capital punishment and abortion. Slack underscores the importance
of government's role of providing outward justice, as well as the
citizen's responsibility to be supportive of government tasks in
order to reconcile the reality of life-taking with the moral
compass professed in the American political community.
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