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A doctor identifies a 7.5 month old fetus meeting specific criteria so that he can remove it without removing too much more during an abortion. A pros...

:victory: Ok, just above, you said Catholics have to be essentialist because Catholics believe in an immortal soul. I then said that this doesn’t foll...

No. But can you say otherwise? I presume you can’t because you won’t say what essentialism essentially is. And there is no logical connection between ...

:rofl: So you are an essentialist too! Like the Catholics.

I’m not doing anymore work for you. Define essentialism. Tell me how it is relevant in your mind to a conversation regarding abortion.

But I am speaking with you now. So, this is utterly meaningless drivel and I wouldn't even know where to start to take another step in such a conversa...

That’s dumb. No they don’t. We trust God on the issues we can’t use our own reason and senses to sort out. Where do souls go? They remain in God’s han...

In this attempted conversation regarding whether we can or even need to identify a functional use for the word “human being” that is relevant to the q...

I keep telling these guys there are fairy essences hiding in the assertions they are making. I think it is because they are not being careful with the...

True, you wouldn’t be able to put a box around what I understand from that one sentence - it could mean anything. But the last line of the article com...

In the opening of the article: “…the Augustinian picture of language which might be correct but which is, nevertheless, strictly limited because it ig...

Spot on, great discussion. What process did you use to identify "beard"? Or "clean shaven"? In order to look for the gray, fuzzy relationship that may...

Fine. Your are talking public policy. Make it 4 months. We’ll call it the Praxis rule. Is this confession? Or are you a canon lawyer? Why would I thin...

Is there anyone here who rejects essentialism and opposes anything?

Explain what? To whom? You worried about whether I am contradicting myself again, or whether I might be a servant of Satan, hiding in the Catholic Chu...

That was clever. But still doesn't explain Praxis' immaturity. Only mine maybe.

So my question everyone wants to point out how difficult it is to ask, and how difficult it is to answer, is: what is a human being/person and when do...

Immaturity.

So is this because: no one can say it? no one can know it to then say of it? nothing can be known? or, there is no such moment (or time frame) when I ...

Can anyone else say that what a person is, or what a human being is, and most importantly, when either one of these pops into existence? I assume all ...

Great assertion. How about some aspects.

We could figure out exceptions to the rule. But we need a rule first. Is anything a human being?

So, on earth, where do you find persons? If you want to draw a distinction between a person and a human being, you have to show me what a person has o...

By the way. I've stated what my religion is more than a few times in the forum. It's no secret. I'm just not telling you here. Because Satan told me, ...

Are you asking "what are 'we'"? Are you acknowledging that we are made of cells and asking "what else are we?" That's what I'm asking. The spirit of t...

The issue doesn't have to be whether the distinctions we make refer to objects that are independent of us, or objects we invent as part of the game of...

Kind of creepy. But really spot on analysis.

I don’t think it helps at all to have this conversation in religious terms. I think some religious people think that the reason human beings are valua...

That is exactly right. No goofing around. You nailed it. I had no idea who I was dealing with. Impressive. Now. Do you have any of your own views? Or…...

I agree with all of that. But that means to me, neither of us have any choice in the matter. “There is an independent material world”. I’ll even stipu...

I’m at least a collection of particles. That’s all I need to be to have this conversation. The conversation, to me, is can we draw a line, a distincti...

Words are always important, but they don’t need to be the focus as when making a semantical point. I think you split hairs on “will/must” without the ...

This is a difficult question to answer in the context of a living organism. So let me ask, is me today the same thing as me yesterday? In some senses ...

Why not just answer the question then? My eyes and your eyes are now the context, you are saying we both, if our eyes are working, must see a differen...

Do I have to see a difference between zygotes and adults in order to understand the significance of what you are saying? I think the answer has to be ...

Damn. So ends the conversation. Is that a choice? Is there any physical/biological fact in this context we both have to accept?

Ha!

True. As I continue to be completely open I'll admit that I implied you may have been interested to know who you were talking to when the words "relig...

Perfectly coherent position based on facts we can both observe for ourselves. Good. I agree with all of this verbatim: You said it. I would say it. Ex...

That was the first time the word “religion” was used between us. Contradiction contradicted. Again. What’s your next really important issue in this de...

I see what you are saying. You are focused on the “because” part of these statements. You don’t want to bother with some underlying subject/substance ...

That doesn't track for me. "has/is" has become "do have". And because of this you make a distinction between the phrases: "a human being is something ...

You brought it up first, not me. I was just being open and honest and responding fully to you. Where are you trying to go with the conversation? Still...

Thank you for saying what you think and explaining it to add some content for us to talk about. I am focused on the question: “what does any human bei...

Are you reading my whole posts? The time I’m putting in to try to answer your questions. I admitted the phrase you took to GPT was confusing AND I cle...

So first, I am treating these two questions completely separately. The first question is: when does a new thing that comes into being, have to be call...

I get it that it looks contradictory The term “anti abortion-without-exception” is confusing, depending on where the hyphens go. It’s a stupid term. T...

Oh you were wondering how I think that, because all abortion is the killing of a person, only some abortions might be sins. An easy example is an abor...

Ok, I mistook you to be skeptical of my motives. You were skeptical of my ability to make a coherent point. Fair enough. Abortion without exception - ...

This is because it is hard to describe a living thing with a static word “thing”. We have to be precise and language, which fixes things, is trying to...