You should have stayed with this and worked on your comprehension of these issues on your own time. So far you've made petulantly clear how you feel, and any infant can do that. But you're not an infant, are you. So what is your excuse?This conversation is disturbing. I'd rather not carry on — Gregory
What's your excuse for wanting to kill babies? Are you an abortion doctor? Do you want to be one? Would you be one? Or are you just going to let other people do the dirty work? — Gregory
And this:Try this for starters. You aver the fetus has rights. What rights would those be, based on what? Keep it brief, simple, and clear and I will try to respond. — tim wood
And you are either non-responsive, or nonsensical. And this:The right not to be killed for starters.
— Gregory
Be careful here. What is it, exactly, that is being killed? — tim wood
You have absolutely no philosophical abilities so I don't know why you are even on this forum. You are also very immature in how you avoid questions. It's been like arguing with the raging hormones of a teenager — Gregory
The problem is that reason requires a synthetic term of which we become convinced as axiomatic to the ensuing analysis, but can only result in recognition of our differing. Is philosophy polemic or dissent? Persuading others of our convictions or testing our own? What if the most persuasive term is the one that frees us from our convictions rather than enforcing them on others? What could be more persuasive than being given reason to be emancipated from our convictions? And what could be more what truth is if we insist upon the highest possible state of rigor in this? And what could be more destructive of rigor, and so more conducive of ignorance, than supposing the end of reason is agreement? Consensus is the end of governing and establishing law amongst a people, but therapeutic dissent is the only justifying context of that consensus. — Gary M Washburn
No. I cannot attach to "truth" any other understanding than it's being a generic abstract collective noun that signals that which individual true propositions have in common, namely being true. And in as much as individual propositions are true in different ways, the collective truth can have no - zero - particular meaning or significance. So much for truth.You're one of those who believe truth is what endures some sort of test? — Gary M Washburn
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