So much for the social contract ... — baker
Progressivism really is like a secular religion, complete with the Paradise of Power to the People through Big Brother Federal Government. Republicans are the party of the immoral, selfish and stupid. Dems are the party of the morally upright, the community based, and the brilliant thinkers. — Fire Ologist
I’m a liberal Democrat. I don’t like losing elections and we shouldn’t be. Democrats govern and Republicans destroy. We should be the majority party, but we’re not. Here are some suggestions about how we might go about fixing this. — T Clark
Most abortion debates get nowhere because they're focusing on the personhood status of the unborn or the lack of such status, rather than looking at the intention for abortion and the implications of such intention. — baker
Thats only a problem if you believe value derives from evolution, a proposition you presented but which I dont hold. — Ourora Aureis
You even mentioned social and cultural factors yourself, but then you immediately overule them with the gene propagation idea. — Ourora Aureis
I already presented why I think people hold these values, and its mostly a case of religious philosophy, not some innate emotional reaction that derives from their biology. — Ourora Aureis
There's a bit of all-or-nothing slight of hand going on… — Banno
If your entire position is without any rational thought and is simply driven directly by your genes, then Im not sure how you would defend it or even justify it to yourself. It also is a false scientific explanation, since zygotes are a part of modern knowledge that couldnt have evolved into our psyches, which you can see by the vast majority of humanity having no emotional issue with zygote termination. — Ourora Aureis
From what you just said, I'm assuming I was wrong and that you value life from conception? — Ourora Aureis
I recognize the image on the right as a person. I don't recognize the image on the left as a person.
If you recognize the image on the left as a person, can you explain how you recognize it as a person?
—praxis
The one on the left is what the one on the right looked like about 9 months earlier. In those 9 months, what changed for you? — NOS4A2
I don’t want us to have to talk about my crappy reasoning yet, — Fire Ologist
What are those qualities, besides Caucasian, and hair? — Fire Ologist
We don’t need to go through every aspect of personhood do we?
— praxis
Absolutely not. Probably a bottomless pit. — Fire Ologist
Again, this provides no insight into why an adult and a baby are both persons, but a zygote is not. — Fire Ologist
Basically, why do you think a new born baby is a person? — Fire Ologist
What “personal” things are you recognizing about a new born baby? — Fire Ologist
the same question from way way back that I’ve asked multiple people over and over to directly address in any way — Fire Ologist
what is “individual recognition” anyway? — Fire Ologist
What leads you to believe it is not a person? — NOS4A2
When does “person” or “human being” happen so that it matters in discussion about abortion. That’s the money time period or moment. — Fire Ologist
So if you're a 2nd Century BCE Carthaginian, it's moral to sacrifice babies to Baal. — frank
Essentialism tend to mean that there are fixed attributes — Tom Storm
Do you think essences immortal or something? — Fire Ologist
Are you saying immortal equals unchanging?
Why is that? — Fire Ologist
Ok, just above, you said Catholics have to be essentialist because Catholics believe in an immortal soul.
I then said that this doesn’t follow as there is nothing about the amorphous term soul that requires belief in essentialism.
You agreed they can be amorphous. — Fire Ologist
Why can’t souls be as amorphous as whatever else we are talking about? — Fire Ologist
I wouldn't even know where to start to take another step in such a conversation. — Fire Ologist
I don’t have any idea if “souls” ever “go” at all, let alone where or how they would go when bodies die, as in when a fetus is destroyed in an abortion. — Fire Ologist