What kind of depravity is required to think this way?
Posted by AmericanGreatness 10 years, 1 month ago to Culture
Evil that's hard to fathom...
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The only brain activity going on about him now is in my head, my family's, and others, certainly not in his. So why would I visit that place? Like I said, struggling.
Does the suicide aspect alter the suitability of the analogy for you??
Force the woman to bear the child.
Force the woman to abort the child.
Let her choose.
Which?
I acknowledge the force being applied to the fetus, but I also acknowledge that the mother has rights, included protection from force.
On my balance, the mother as a fully developed being is entitled to more protections than a potential being.
Your position weighs the scale the other way.
Yes, Pro Choice is a code word for Pro Abortion, but you're jumping a huge divide here by saying that Pro Choice (or Pro Abortion) are against giving birth, even if most of PP's business is doing abortions. No doubt many of PP boses and employees have children...
As to a "prominent women's rights' figure in the UK" -- yep, you got a fringe group!
The point that I was trying to make was not to either support or not support abortions. My point was the form of argument or discussion that you presented.
But again, it is not free. We have to pay for it.
Government and government funding should NOT be in the business of social engineering. They should be as minimally intrusive as possible, and no larger than needed.
A fantasy, I know, but one of my favorite ones.
To many people a fetus is not considered a child until after it is born.
To many other people the line is at the third trimester.
To still others the line is after the 1st trimester.
To others (like you) the line is conception.
Where the individual draws that line is the real heart of this issue.
To someone like you the car/cliff analogy works because of where you draw the line.
To many others the analogy does not work because they would not consider the abortion a murder, based upon the development stage.
This of course, ignores the suicide aspect of you driving the car over the cliff in the first place. I think its likely a safe assumption that you are against suicide strongly, based on your position on when life begins.
So tell me does the car/cliff analogy still work for you, even though you would be committing suicide in the process?
I don't like abortions either, you might be surprised how little we differ on that. The difference is that I consider it Immoral to force my beliefs on others.
We all own ourselves and have free will.
I refuse to compromise those two principles.
Therefore I do not force my beliefs on this issue as requirements on others.
Western societies have 2 extremely strong taboos about the taking of human life.
One is murder - the unlawful killing of another human.
The other is Suicide - the taking of your own life.
For your analogy, that would require the person driving the car off the cliff to jump the hurdle of both of those strong taboos at once. Something that movies like Thelma & Louise aside, only occurs rarely.
That is a major flaw in your analogy.
Any information they obtain will be utilized, twisted, and propagandized to continue to attempt to force and control the rest of us. That is the history and won't change till reason can override the superstition and supernatural. That is reality and I prefer to just ignore the irrational and any of their supposedly reasonable requests or demands.
I'd like to get rid of all government funding, but the irrational certainly take enough of it for use in their efforts and would resist any effort to get all of their information published. A line of non-compliance with the irrational must be drawn.
Third, Their should be a cut off point, that's very clear...and again, medical issues are a different story. This whole feminine issue lacks conscience and is driven by unhealthy misconceptions, hubris and I wouldn't be surprised if it's tied into 'Global De-population' agenda by those that do not value Conscious Human life. These creatures value the earth more than humans and can not create the necessary values to clean up the mess they have made! Post Script: If an abortion is rightfully warranted then the donor parts and stem cells should be donated...shipping cost at the expense of the receiver.
Setting aside the question of when a fetus becomes a child, when life begins, or any of the other differences.
Driving a car off a cliff with a passenger is murder for them and suicide for you. That is two deaths, not one.
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