Yes. Sigh. Do you have to be so pedantic? Better? Sigh. We've been over this already and I told you that it was relatively unimportant. I don't wish t...
Okay, I'm over your annoying way of replying to me enough for me to reply to you. Take two: Mine, it seemed. It seemed as though you were rejecting it...
Oh yes, I completely agree. That's why I've been using the technical terminology. But that was just a reminder of what's being left out, and the effec...
Yes, overuse of the quote function can also be bad. And in general, yes, a single sentence here and there can work, but typically quoting in chunks or...
Well then work towards an understanding. It isn't helpful to simply say "I'm not sure what your position is". Also, I'm going to take this opportunity...
That only makes sense in the hidden context where they already feel that serious harm is wrong. Whatever you say, you can always go back a step until ...
An option for who? Let's say for you. That depends. How do you feel about it? It would be lose-lose for you, I think. You either concede to the emotio...
It's an irresolvable problem. You have a burden to justify what I don't think you can justify, namely that it's justified to reject a position just be...
But I made it really easy! Look, since this is about ethics more than law, I'll change the reference to law into a reference to morality, and I'll jus...
In what respect? You must have picked up something. I'm not a moral objectivist and I'm not a moral nihilist. I'm a moral subjectivist. That wasn't my...
I haven't even read it! :lol: The Abortion Act seems good enough to me. All I know about Roe v Wade is that it was a landmark legal case which set a p...
I certainly don't consider women to be second-class citizens or that only men should decide their fate. That's crazy, and even interpreting my comment...
Tell me about it! Or maybe you're full of it and that's a downright condemnable suggestion if directed at me. The last recourse of a desperate and emo...
I fear it's worse than nothing. He could probably trick someone naive enough to fall for his crap. I'm sure there are such people out there. He just p...
Sure, responsibility is only an issue if there is value in the first place. But I find it almost incomprehensible to see either no value or such littl...
Only in certain cases: those that fail the moral test, namely the Abortion Act 1967. Oh god no. Parents can be extremely irresponsible. They shouldn't...
I'm surprised that he was allowed to last so long, given his crystal clear violation of the guideline about evangelists, evidenced in the discussion o...
Why are you talking about cysts? That's very misleading, given that abortions aren't necessary until around eight weeks, and that at around eight week...
I was addressing you, you silly goose. Rank's comment was only there to provide context. Obviously it does if that's being used as your moral criteria...
I understood your point to be that a couple shouldn't be held anywhere near as morally responsible for creating a pregnancy if they took the right the...
Yes, and you don't need us to tell you what the key differences are. These are much better questions. Split them up into two separate discussions unde...
Yes, but that would change if it resulted in pregnancy. And I don't really get why you'd switch the focus to protected sex. Isn't the point to conside...
Well, I used to watch YouTube videos by Owen Jones and by Russell Brand. (Yeah, yeah, haters gonna hate). But now I pretty much only use YouTube to wa...
You're right that the foetus is not a moral actor. You get a gold star for that. I'll swap "needs" for "concerns" and say that concerns relating to th...
I am a professor in shmanciology. If you would like to learn more about it, I invite you to attend one of my upcoming lectures on the shmubject. There...
Which part would that be? :brow: We know what it is. Meaning is use. We know what a game is. It's a similar thing going on here. So it can't be that. ...
But there's no other way. It's either that or nothing, and nothing isn't a real option. You can't just switch off your moral feelings. The experience ...
Sure, if that's how they feel about it. Moral agents don't make moral claims without a basis in moral feeling. They can refer to an objective whatever...
Any supposed difference seems ultimately to amount to nothing other than a difference in feeling. When someone tries to give an example of, say, someo...
If you're interested in a good test for that, instead of just picking apart his logic, then here it is again: If they fail the test, then they ought t...
No, the main issue is the ethics of abortion. I don't connect the two in the way that others are doing. I don't think so. I don't judge it based on vi...
Why don't you check out what I've said and get back to me? I'm not sure exactly what it is you're after from me, and I don't really feel like starting...
No, in my view, abortion is not just like that situation. I said earlier that I think of personhood as a linguistic category. By that I mean that we c...
What's an obligation? I tend not to find much use for that word. Is it that she should behave in a certain way: a way which I judge to be moral? It co...
Would you mind if I borrowed your dog? You see, I'm not sure whether my incinerator is working. It seems to have gotten something wedged right in ther...
This is why I love you. Let's get married. I hear that there are some beautiful churches in Dover. There's this one church in particular which I have ...
Don't get the wrong idea, I definitely wasn't suggesting that the law establishes morality. I agree that morality is primordial. I was just saying tha...
If you've read other comments of mine in this discussion and in other ethical discussions that I've participated in, then I think that my position on ...
Indeed, I have already discussed it prior to that post. But funnily enough, I just finished editing that part because I thought it appropriate to expa...
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