All forms of life do not have the necessary attributes to form the necessary substances. In the case of abortion, you are comparing a human fetus with that of all forms of life to where there exists no attributes in comparison to say they are similar in substance. There are no factual correspondents that can be demonstrated in any actuality. To otherwise is almost solipsistic in nature. — Cobra

What's a two month fetus have on a 10 year old chimp? — Coben

In all these, I'm still me from what I gather. As in it's me controlling or at least interacting with the experience as opposed to just watching a movie for example. — Outlander

Would you be okay if I hunted you for meat then LOL — 3017amen

Don't include me in the mess you've made of your logic LOL — 3017amen

But why do you exist? All you've said so far is to eat and drink. If everyone thought that there would be no procreation hence you would not exist. I'm confused. — 3017amen

Subtle distinction: I exist because I have a will to live that includes eating and drinking. — Key

What other things consist of this will to live? In principal, if you say ' nothing', then you are essentially relegating yourself to a lower life-form, right? — 3017amen

In other words,you say you exist but you don't know why or how, no? The nature of your own existence seems to be somewhat of an enigma I suppose... — 3017amen

If I didn't have some will to live I would not exist... See natural selection. — Key

all that's required in natural selection is instinct. — 3017amen

Are you sure? Let's see, common sense says you have a will to live. So it is true you have a will. — 3017amen

A fifth dimensional being might have numerous reasons to create, or go to a 3 dimensional universe. Like a fertile ground for seeding fledgling beings for example, which might occasionally require assistance, weeding. — Punshhh

I should think that an advanced civilization would have long since recognized there is at least one thing that cannot be simulated, the universe. I, myself, happen to be a member of that civilization. If you're not, can you describe just how you might go about simulating the universe? — tim wood

that's because my wavefunction collapsed when I counted out the tip. — Kaarlo Tuomi

we assume the probability that I will pick any given flavour is equal, so that before I pick a flavour, I am assumed to have picked all ten flavours at once.

there is also the multiverse theory, which says that for every choice I make, there is an alternative universe in which I made some other choice.

so, if I am assumed to have picked all ten flavours at once, how many waiters do I have to tip? — Kaarlo Tuomi

Sorry; let me rephrase this more simply... you're making an unwarranted assumption. — InPitzotl

Laplace's demon specifies that selecting the greater option would happen — InPitzotl

Options being considered in a choice are considerations, not "realities". (I have no qualms how you map this to "free will" one way or the other, but having a single outcome does not entail a choice was not made... all it entails is that if a choice was made, that outcome was what was chosen). — InPitzotl

I think free will works in this way: we always follow our strongest desire, but we are free in our choices. You are free to choose one way or another when a genuine choice is put before you, but it's infallibly certain which one you will choose if you are looking at it from the outside like Laplace's demon. The reason is that there is no reason to choose the weaker impulse! But I think we are free none the less to choose the lesser one and although we never will choose it, we will always consider it¹. This might seem like a paradox, or it might seem perfectly clear. It probably depends where someone is in their journey. I was wondering if I should post about this because I am not sure where I am in my journey,
or any of you.

The question of the nature of reality is involved in this topic as well. If some people never reach their full potential while others do, it is through their fault². HOWEVER, the universe is set up such that many will fail their destiny³. So can we conclude that reality is not good? Yet it is still the fault of the people who fail that they trip themselves up. — Gregory

1. assuming there are only two possible choices is completely ignoring Laplace's demon?
2. assuming free will
3. you seem to have access to Laplace's demon?

There are studies that show that female empowerment results in the decision to have less kids.

Regardless of the country, more empowered women desire significantly fewer children compared with their less empowered counterparts. https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-019-0747-9 — Wheatley

Besides, women are squeezed out of their rightful contraception, away from possible emergency abortion and to give births against their will only to fuel the flames of evil, tragedies guaranteed! — DrOlsnesLea

6) Reverse every rule, law, directive issued by the Trump's administration. I cannot think of one that is not rotten, obscene, disgusting, and corrupt. — tim wood

No. Men and women who have "been there done that," from war to piece, business and raising families. They know when to be angry and what to be angry at, and to call out evil. Every generation of the accomplished that make it to that age has a claim to being "the greatest." And when they say Trump sucks, that's worth paying attention to. — tim wood

It’s not that genes that allow for some doomed offspring get eliminated, it’s that genes that don’t allow for some non-doomed offspring get eliminated. Males can just make lots of offspring at no cost and let some of them be doomed so long as some others survive. Females can’t make lots of offspring at no cost, so have to be careful that their few offspring do survive. — Pfhorrest

I think men are crazier than women. Women have 23 chronomome pairs, while men only have 22 pairs. Men have an X & Y with no back up copies (poor things). — Wheatley

Due to the pressures of natural selection, genes that enable their "gene machines" to reproduce with fated partners do not propagate through the gene pool. — Key

Because reproduction is free for a male, and costly and dangerous (and in the worst case, fatal) for a female? From the point of view of spreading their genes, a male has no reason not to reproduce with every female they possibly can. A female can't do that, because pregnancy is taxing, dangerous and you can't do it as often, so you have to give more consideration to who you actually reproduce with; whether they have good genes, whether they're a good parent, and so on. — zookeeper

The common explanation is that there's more variability among men than there is among women. In other words, that the smartest and dumbest are more likely to be found among men. The evolutionary basis for that would be the asymmetrical biology of reproduction which made risk-taking a more favorable strategy for men than women. — zookeeper

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