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In sum, I offered that Roe v. Wade seemed a pretty good argument and ruing on abortion. It would appear that reasonable people pretty much agree and unreasonable people, well, are unreasonable.

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Happy to have the post end, but your summary is self serving nonsense.

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your total objections to the argument were, firstly a complete misreading of an innocuous assumption at the start, and secondly a semantic argument that the future does not exist.

Which was, to your credit much better than Banno's

"My argument in full: A woman has far greater moral worth than a piece of tissue."

From my point of view, I made the only full argument about the morality of abortion, and in 24 pages, no one has made a significant dent in it. Which seems to infuriate you all.

Which, by the way it shouldn't. If or if not abortion is immoral has almost nothing at all to do with if it should or should not be legal. Which is all Roe v Wade is about.

Rank thinks that the existence of a piece of tissue that is parasitic on a person permits us to tell that person what to do.

That's immoral. It's obscene. It encourages acts that are sins against the woman involved.

Rank believes this because of his Catholicism, but is disingenuous in this, attempting to hide his beliefs in convolute argument reminiscent of the rantings of theologians.

Closing the thread will only mean that @Rank Amateur moves on to another. Perhaps there is an argument for keeping the thread open as a sandpit for his happy tantrums.

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All morally permissible actions are not immoral.
Abortion is morally permissible
Therefore, abortion is not immoral.

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Well, gentlemen, I'm glad we've finally put this matter to rest, and I look forward to seeing the notable absence of any future discussions on abortion.

If we keep this is up, we'll have this philosophy business resolved in no time.