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Completely agree Completely agree And, that is a shame Completely agree Completely agree, and this is very much what I was trying to say. And the pers...
February 02, 2019 at 20:09
I think every child is a child is better But it does point to how badly we as a people need to distort biology and logic to justify abortion. Examples...
February 02, 2019 at 12:50
I think abortion, as a method of birth control, is a symptom of a rather complicated web of social issues and pressures. I don't believe anyone at the...
February 02, 2019 at 12:05
I have no better way of saying this. He is going to make an argument about the nature of the fetus Before he starts he is asking the reader to assume ...
February 02, 2019 at 04:21
hard to argue with that. I gave up being amazed at our ability as humans to justify killing the people we want dead a very long time ago. Something is...
February 02, 2019 at 03:53
I didn't even make it through the whole post, All this shows is you have not even made the slightest effort to understand the argument, you are arguin...
February 02, 2019 at 03:47
My God, for the now 5th time. The major assumption he is making is, that the nature of what a fetus is, is a determining factor in if abortion is or i...
February 02, 2019 at 03:43
yes p1 is all about you me, want to call us persons, I don't care. But it had nothing at all, about fetuses, they are not even mentioned in p1. ALL P1...
February 02, 2019 at 03:24
my goodness, for like the 20th time. p1 of the argument has NOTHING to do with the fetus, NOTHING Here is the whole logic of the argument First- you h...
February 02, 2019 at 01:49
You changed the argument into what you want it to say so it doesn't work, and then say see it doesn't work. That is just garbage. At the time I told y...
February 02, 2019 at 00:16
Ok, you are right the proposition is not conditional. It is "the car has an engine" , If you wish to argue it, you say, "the car does not have an engi...
February 02, 2019 at 00:03
but to address your point yet again. In a syllogistic argument, the person making the argument states propositions they claim to be true, and if those...
February 01, 2019 at 19:04
so I am sure you are right, but I have gone back over those links I sent you - and I can't find the quoted line above in them - Or am i reading your p...
February 01, 2019 at 18:30
agree - seem to be talking passed each other, and sure i am in no small measure to blame - enjoy the rest of your day
January 31, 2019 at 19:00
I have no original arguement to make on the issue - and in 18 pages have not seen an origiinal one against - if originality was a requirement on this ...
January 31, 2019 at 18:52
just a quick grab off the internet, these folks who argue against marquis seemed to have missed your point: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/philo...
January 31, 2019 at 18:48
please don't continue to make vague semantic references - if you actually have a point about what you want responsibility to mean in the case we are d...
January 31, 2019 at 18:14
he and they ( one by the way was a pro choice argument) does no such thing, and i have explained your error in on this point a few times. But just tak...
January 31, 2019 at 18:11
Is pregnancy as a result of sex the former or the later ? We know what we are talking about - I say there is a responsibility You say no - Butterfly e...
January 31, 2019 at 17:56
I understand that is your belief, and that is 100 pct fine. But that is not argument. I think we have been back and forth enough on this - these are t...
January 31, 2019 at 14:00
Yes it should be. So we are NOT responsible for the direct and predictable results of our act of free will because a butterfly flapped it wings in Arg...
January 31, 2019 at 13:52
Is not an answer to the question, is a dodge I asked at the start that this be assumed for the sake of arguing this concept - because it has to be for...
January 31, 2019 at 13:13
So, are we relieved of the responsibility of our acts of free will, simply by them not being intended? I didn't want to hit that car as I ran the red ...
January 31, 2019 at 11:26
Can you tie that to the father and mother having no responsibility for the consequence of their act of free will please. Yet again, just a bunch of wo...
January 31, 2019 at 11:06
thanks , banno. An assumption of the argument is the fetus is a moral actor. Has a right to life. Otherwise the argument is absurd. So, just for the s...
January 31, 2019 at 10:57
That is true of explicit consent, But implied consent, as you have already agreed here to as a valid concept is by definition not an intentional givin...
January 30, 2019 at 21:39
Quick aside, and it may just be me - but i find your prose most confusing. But let me give it a try. "It seems you want to establish consent. " Not re...
January 30, 2019 at 20:37
My take, an opinion is an unsupported belief. It certainly can be true and useful, but it either can't or is not for some reason defended. Knowledge c...
January 30, 2019 at 19:58
just to help a little. David Boonin in his "pro choice" book " In defense of abortion" addresses the issue of Tacit Consent this way. He grants, that ...
January 30, 2019 at 19:10
not sure I stopped responding. Again you denied the concept of implied consent - out of hand. You give no reason at all why, it is manufactured, that ...
January 30, 2019 at 18:13
how about we go with Tacit Consent ? Is that better ??
January 30, 2019 at 17:34
So, in some type of summary, To the question I proposed, although you seem to believe in the concept of an implied consent, you point is it does not a...
January 30, 2019 at 10:55
just a matter of opinion on the relative speculation of a necessary being versus (fill in the blank). Science knows what it knows, and more importantl...
January 30, 2019 at 00:22
Excellent question, just an entire world full of fools I guess.
January 29, 2019 at 23:52
TP, I am fine with almost all the non- God possible answers. But the finite uuniverse, which at this moment of our understanding is the scientific con...
January 29, 2019 at 23:46
No problem with that at all. Agree, didn't think I did, and if so, not intentionall. What we know, we know. What don't know is a open to a free exchan...
January 29, 2019 at 22:08
please, you made a declarative statement In general we follow those with support, so the person you are talking to can address it. And as a reminder, ...
January 29, 2019 at 21:56
your right it doesn't - can't believe the amount of time and effort we humans have put into that question for the last couple of thousand years. Waste...
January 29, 2019 at 20:53
because ???
January 29, 2019 at 20:50
I said Ok, Ok, and now Ok. I was wrong, there is no such thing as causality in physics - I bend to your overwhelming knowledge on the subject. Not rea...
January 29, 2019 at 20:44
and the difference between that and, the taking care of the material needs before birth ? Again, an assumption of the argument is the fetus is a moral...
January 29, 2019 at 20:42
That is the reason I stop. Why continue ? We each made our point, You seemed quite convinced. There was not going to be anything more of value to say....
January 29, 2019 at 20:40
how many ok's do you want
January 29, 2019 at 20:36
Ok
January 29, 2019 at 20:33
I agree - but if the universe is finite. By definition it had a first moment. so also by definitnon there was nothing before that. So there was nothin...
January 29, 2019 at 20:29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality_(physics)
January 29, 2019 at 20:24
The name of the concept is "implied consent" I didn't chose it. You can surely make a case the concept doesn't apply. But it has nothing at all do to ...
January 29, 2019 at 20:22
no matter how you cut it, you are saying that from nothing - there was something - that was not caused. Can't see how with that understanding - you ca...
January 29, 2019 at 20:16
so you are willing to allow, for some reason, an exception to the rule of causation ? Why?
January 29, 2019 at 20:08
actually what I argued was. by her action of free will, she was responsible for the possible outcomes of that action. So to put back in your example. ...
January 29, 2019 at 20:03