Do you think a non-suicidal pro-life person could be convinced to become pro-choice?

[snooperdooper]

As the title suggests. Somebody who has consistently held a pro-life position in life and believes suicide is always wrong. Could they ever be convinced or would they have to suffer themselves and be suicidal in order to be pro choice?

 

[Archness]

Maybe remind them of all the times they wished a bad or useless person would just "Disappear", or CTB?

 

[madwoman]

I think they'd either need personal experience like becoming suicidal or dealing with a situation with someone they know that is suicidal and understand their reasoning - but it's not easy for suicidal people to talk about though so I guess I'm thinking if their health has debilitated enough like they are hooked up to machines and quality of life is so low and they want assisted suicide. I don't think people change their mind unless they have personal experience and understand the other side.

 

[sheeplit]

I think this ultimately boils down to a question of changing a strongly held belief. Technically possible, practically impossible.

Beliefs built on sound reason can be changed, but you need to trace its roots and all its dependencies, as well as well reasoned argumentation. Beliefs tend to have a lot of appendages that depend on it. Often takes a lot of work, but doable with sane conversation.

Beliefs built circular as 'good because good' or 'bad because bad'... well, good luck trying. Outside of some extreme event that forces them to look deeper or at all, I don't see much point in even talking about it.

 

[TBONTB]

As the title suggests. Somebody who has consistently held a pro-life position in life and believes suicide is always wrong. Could they ever be convinced or would they have to suffer themselves and be suicidal in order to be pro choice?

I don't think they'd be likely to change their point of view. Most of us only change our views with some strong experience. As you point out, they would have to have pretty strong experience themselves to have a different point of view