The right to life of the zygote is in direct conflict with the right to bodily autonomy of the mother; and my point is that the ends do not justify the means, so the mother cannot abort the child as a means towards the good end of upholding their bodily autonomy. — Bob Ross
You have not provided why it would be, e.g., wrong to never sacrifice an ant to save a person other than an intuition you have; which is not sufficient to disprove it. — Bob Ross
Because I must, in order to be a morally good agent, respect a thing relative to its nature; and in order to respect a fellow will, like mine, I must treat them as an end in themselves and never a mere means. — Bob Ross
Ethics doesn’t care what you feel: it cares about what moral reasons you have. — Bob Ross
Abortion is always immoral… — Bob Ross
Technically, neo-aristotelian. The part I was discussing was Aristotelian in nature; but you pointed out some other point that Aristotle made, assuming you are right, about souls. I am not sure he actually believed that, and don't want to re-comb through all his literature to find out. — Bob Ross
Yeah, I don't buy that (sorry Aristotle). — Bob Ross
The result is that the foam at their mouths get frothier while no one else really cares until they do something stupid, like assassinate a candidate. — NOS4A2
I think that evolution and biology are the groundings for Teleology: I don't think that there needs to be an agent that designed it for there to be design. — Bob Ross
their Telos dictates that they will develop rational capacities — Bob Ross
What??? — Bob Ross
Traditionally, a rational will; i.e., a sufficiently free will. That is a serious and impactful difference between humans and other species: most, if not all, other species lack the capacity to go against their own nature and inclinations such that they are motivated by pure reason.
Traditionally, a being which has a Telos such that it will have, if not already has, a rational will are called persons (because their nature marks them out to be such); and their will must be respected.
More technically, a being which has a such a "rational Telos" is not necessarily a person but, rather, will be; and their nature marks them out as such; and this is what grounds their rights (and not whether or not they currently are a person). — Bob Ross
You are making it sound like both republicans and democrats see eye-to-eye on abortion.... — Bob Ross
I don't think that is true at all. Red states are predominantly conservative; and conservatives are not pro-choice. — Bob Ross
When the right to abortion is on the ballot, it wins. It wins in red states that voted for President Donald Trump. It wins in counties President Joe Biden lost by more than 20 points. It wins when popular Republican officials campaign for it and when they ignore it. And it wins even when the outcome has no immediate effect on abortion access.
— Politico
There have been votes; and red states vote no; and blue states vote yes. There is no consensus. — Bob Ross
The point is not whether or not one can tell if it is a human being — Bob Ross
It is really weird, to me, to say that it is not a new member of the human species. — Bob Ross
We actually do see stress responses in fetuses around 18 months — frank
Per CBC theory, cells are conscious in that they have awareness of their environments. How would you show that this view is wrong? — frank
If it bleeds it leads. — ucarr
If it’s not another, what is it? An organ? A parasite? — NOS4A2
Buddhists think that desire is the root of evil for an individual. — Shawn
Well, ethics is about what we do. And I'm off to an art exhibit and lunch with friends.
Not something that can be done with a zygote.
— Banno
Every single one of you were zygotes. Luckily no one treated you with such disregard. — NOS4A2
Thanks for backing me up here; but, my intent was to point at the secondary effect — Shawn
a God-bearing universe is more interesting and more fun — ucarr
A cosmic sentient with unlimited powers may have created humans with their purpose in mind and therefore with human purpose built into their design. — ucarr
Yeah, he lost me too. — Banno
So though you claim we should be rational about this, you've got nothing rational to say. — frank
If I stretch the meaning of "inert" a bit and construe "inactive" as being "neutral-adjacent,"... — ucarr
... then life-and-art-beyond-morality are the sources and causes of morality. — ucarr
There is a real allure or reward of stoicisms promise of staying sane or achieving inner calm.
— Shawn
First of all, Stoicism makes no such promise.
Stoicism is not a self-help philosophy.
These ancient (and for the most part a lot better) versions of self-help tools are not the ends of Stoicism but tools to help in one's Stoic tasks: the journey towards the good. — boethius
I'll venture to surmise from your statement above we agree that art lies beyond morality, the central theme of this conversation.
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I think the weaponization of religion, unlike the weaponization of art (as propaganda), lies outside of the scope of this conversation. — ucarr
If I grant your view, then every single cell in my body is its own human being. Do you see how absurd that is? — Bob Ross
The seed is not a plant — Bob Ross
What you are thinking, is that somehow a dog's cell can just become a dog---that's not how that works. — Bob Ross
Do your answers establish a separation between art-in-itself and art-in-itself weaponized? — ucarr
the conceptus' needs are only ever inferred — Banno
Are you suggesting that a person that is dependent on another human to survive is thereby no longer a human being---or never was? — Bob Ross