It's the "says you" defense. I say abortion is wrong and you say "says you," and I say sure, and because I say it, it is so for me but not for you, an...
Why was a I a human being the minute I began to develop? If you keep saying it, does it just become true? If I have a stack of wood, a saw, and a set ...
This strikes me as a global objection to ethical analysis generally and a declaration of ethical subjectivism, You speak of the massive variations in ...
The equivocation issue arises here in how you're using "state's rights." As to abortion regulation, the Court was examining the Constitutional limit o...
I'll accept the CA, but reject your criteria you've offered. I'm fine with accepting the conclusion that we will never define the essential characteri...
This misunderstands @"Rank Amateur"'s post. Roe v. Wade is in fact about the state's (meaning the government's) limits and rights to regulate abortion...
A quibble. A one second old embryo has minimal worth, but a 10 year old child infinite worth. At what moment in time does this thing have sufficient w...
I'm not sure how you define "approach" here other than a definition that works only sometimes. I don't understand how this follows. You started out tr...
Sure, I'll value them both, but lets say there's a need for a law that prohibits cutting down oak trees. Do you get fined for stepping on an acorn? Wh...
I'll pay attention to you in a moment. I see you've got your hand raised. As to AJJ, his position is explicitly that certain things are clearly classi...
Yes, but what about the drunk homeless man, asleep in the gutter? Shall we kill this insentient, unemotional, inaffectionate, physically unhealthy, an...
I'm not sure it is inconsistent. Only people can sue, not fetuses, so if you abort the fetus, it never gained any rights to do anything. The thing tha...
Then your conclusion is your starting point. If you start with the idea that only people have rights and that fetuses aren't people, then what's there...
Each cell grows and each organ grows, so they do become more than what they are. Regardless, you're adding arbitrary rules here. Previously you claime...
The law is consistent with only people having rights. The fetus could not sue for its injuries, only the injured child could. What we're concerned abo...
You assume your conclusion in you argument, namely that a fetus is not a person. That seems to be the issue in dispute. If one takes a fetus to be a p...
Your comment does properly recognize that the pro-choice crowd uses an arbitrary moment to define when human life begins, but you fail to recognize th...
Assuming they do tolerate child neglect and do nothing to alleviate it, or, better yet, assume they actually advocate child abuse and also are opposed...
I've never been able to get a good education, not so much because of my class standing, my pedigree, or even an unavailability of funding, but more so...
Sorry to hear about Fido. Are you doing the full bagpipes sort of funeral or are you throwing him in the county incinerator like you did your children...
A colon is supposed to be used to reduce the water content of fecal matter after it exits the small intestine prior to excretion. The lack of a colon ...
It's going pretty good, I guess. Wish the weekend were longer. The kids are doing well, thanks for asking. The oldest has a birthday coming up. Fun! F...
Good questions. Taking them one at a time: 28% of her $10 is taken directly by Trump. She eats only bread, feta cheese, and turnips at $3 per day and ...
Sure, rent is $1200 and you earn $10/hour as a social worker. You're taxed at 28%. Each client spends 45 minutes with you. How many clients do you nee...
I don't know about bugs, but my cat is pretty small and she seems to move in hyper speed, so that would support your theory that maybe she sees me mov...
Yeah, but if you call someone a dick, it's not a compliment either, so there's that. Calling a man a pussy also isn't a compliment, but I suppose wome...
Counterexamples to consider: Defamatory speech aimed at a particular person, as in me destroying your reputation and causing you to lose your job base...
I'm not being stubborn here, so help me out. What is a rigid designator other than a certain type of precise definition, where a definition of the for...
Are you not drawing a distinction between knowledge and certainty here? We don't use science to obtain certainty. A scientific experiment is based upo...
Do I see a Michexit on the horizon? Just like Brexit, I think you should decide to leave, but then do the math, realize it's risky, and then, for fear...
So is the essence of the meter stick its length and not that it's a stick. If it were in the form of a cat, is it still a meter stick. Is a meter stic...
Why can't I conceive of him being a cow? If he had a Nixon face, a Nixon personality, a Nixon Watergate scandal, and Ford was his VP, yet he had a bov...
Sure, if the scientific method begins with a question, you can step back and ask where that curiosity came from, which is obviously from some prior ob...
No law literally and physically stops speech, but all speech regulation, whether it be anti-defamation law or contractual law, imposes legal repercuss...
Interesting response. As noted in my listing of the scientific method steps above, all of the data gathered in step 2 ("Gather information and resourc...
Per Wiki, the steps of the scientific method: Define a question Gather information and resources (observe) Form an explanatory hypothesis Test the hyp...
The question relates to "anything," so as it applies to questions of morality, purpose, and meaning of life, those are matters we don't rely upon the ...
If you can't offer a reasonable response to the question of why your position allows enforcement of contractual speech acts, despite your claim that n...
Write whatever you want, no one's gonna read it. That's not snarky btw. It's the clever foreshadowing reveal, the culmination of the stage I set, a da...
Move to Atlanta. You can shine my shoes. In your spare time (because I only have one pair), you can write a book no one will read (this is the clever ...
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