Are you trying to get around to saying all single-cells organisms are of the same moral worth? — NOS4A2
Allow her? I don't know why you're suggesting that I'm allowed to tell women what to do.
beard vs being clean-shaven. What's the point at which whisker growth constitutes a beard? — Relativist
You acknowledge the concept is fuzzy, and yet you think it should be possible to identify a point at which a human life begins. — Relativist
Essentialism is false. — Michael
Which one do you choose to carry to term, nurse, and care for into early adulthood? — NOS4A2
There must be an essence to essentialism in order to put a box around it and file it under the "false" category of judgment, or in order to just say "essentialism is". OR, non-essentially speaking, there must be a comparable difference between essentialism and something else (anything else, everything else) in order to point away from whatever essentialism is to some thing else. Otherwise, there is no significance to saying "essentialism" at all, and nothing has been said.
We need the differences in order to make any moves, both when crossing the room, or laying out a sentence.
Don't call the significance of these differences anything "essential" if you want. Instead, take the effort to have a conversation otherwise, but you haven't refuted the fact that there are persons in the world, independent of us all, who are distinct from grapefruit and soda, and that only by recognizing black and white clear differences can you say this, or make sentences that attempt to refute it.
There is a lot more to say before the above could really be recognized as an important part of the abortion playing board, but the prosecution will adjourn for lunch. — Fire Ologist
You don't seem to understand what essentialism is if that it your response to that particular use of the term "essential". — Michael
you’re an essentialist wrt to fundamental particles. — Johnnie
Where do the souls of aborted babies go? What would a soul of an embryo frozen for centuries experience? — RogueAI
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
Catholics have an idea and you claim to be a Catholic. — praxis
Roman Catholicism
The Roman Catholic view is that baptism is necessary for salvation and that it frees the recipient from original sin. Roman Catholic tradition teaches that unbaptized infants, not being freed from original sin, go to Limbo (Latin: limbus infantium), which is an afterlife condition distinct from Hell. — praxis
I wouldn't even know where to start to take another step in such a conversation. — Fire Ologist
How about starting with whether or not you reject essentialism? — praxis
You believe that using words is essentialism? — praxis
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