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thanks, yea thought I had, but after pages and pages of explanation after explanation, I am sure there are lots of strings of words that can be highli...
January 26, 2019 at 21:52
on to premise 2: P2. From a very early point in a pregnancy there is a unique human organism. After the process of conception is completed there exist...
January 26, 2019 at 20:44
at least where I think we are now is agreement on P1. Summarized Unjustified killing of people like us is immoral, and an important part of what makes...
January 26, 2019 at 20:40
I have, and we have already had this chat on justified killing, I think at least twice. I have allowed there are such things as justified killing, and...
January 26, 2019 at 20:26
Here is the problem with personhood, in moral/ethical arguments - The core issue is, is it biology or something else that makes us a moral actor? If b...
January 26, 2019 at 20:21
The example above, is about a born human, take out their, and put in you. I am still on premise one. It is wrong to kill Tim wood( people like us), an...
January 26, 2019 at 20:09
The entire concept is, how it is an important way someone is harmed, when their life is prematurely ended is the loss of all that they could or would ...
January 26, 2019 at 19:44
well written and I agree. However, while still the important concept legally, in most current academic treatment now about the ethics and morality if ...
January 26, 2019 at 14:45
Are you saying the soldier does not value his future? No matter how uncertain it may be, if so make the case. But there is a sort of good point here, ...
January 26, 2019 at 14:34
The first premise of the argument has absolutely nothing at all to do with the fetus. The reason we need agreement that it is immoral to kill people l...
January 26, 2019 at 13:31
how about we just make a deal with him, that if leaves right now, we will agree he has finished making America great again, he can go and tell everyon...
January 26, 2019 at 03:18
Gish gallop
January 26, 2019 at 03:06
Here is the premise that I will break down into part Any discussion on abortion needs to start with some theoretical account of the wrongness of killi...
January 25, 2019 at 23:52
I like Pelosi's quote. " If we planted flowers along the border, trump could convince his supporters it was a wall. Whatever happens Trump will declar...
January 25, 2019 at 20:17
so just once, for all that is good in the world, stop arguing against the premises in my argument like 5 pages ago in the abstract, pick one you belie...
January 25, 2019 at 18:55
by the way that a definition quote - not my opinion "A premise or premiss is a statement that an argument claims will induce or justify a conclusion. ...
January 25, 2019 at 18:52
agree - now that person says they are not true because . . . . . and again - you are not compelled to believe anything - if you believe them untrue - ...
January 25, 2019 at 18:36
I see the problem - you were out of philosophy class the day they taught philosophy ( love movie quotes don't you) One does not argue or support ones ...
January 25, 2019 at 18:13
against all the arguments I have made, with propositions and conclusions the counter arguments have been Banno - a fetus is not a person, because it i...
January 25, 2019 at 17:39
I have not abandoned the argument - i have made the argument - i am abandoning re-statement after restatement after restatement of the argument - afte...
January 25, 2019 at 16:36
That may or not be true in general, would have no clue how to go about any real way of knowing. But it makes no difference whatsoever in a philosophic...
January 25, 2019 at 16:00
Looking at this - pretty sure it wont be the last thread on abortion - but this will be my last post on it (with one caveat - i will answer direct que...
January 25, 2019 at 15:27
if the decision in row v wade, was about the legality of abortion, if repealed, it would then make abortion illegal. That is not the case. If repealed...
January 25, 2019 at 11:17
I am so sorry, that was a hypothetical and I now wish I used another. Take care of yourself please. I wish I had some great platitude I could share th...
January 25, 2019 at 01:35
I know I posted the same quote a few pages back, making the point it was completely unsupported. Also making the point that if she was using it as a l...
January 25, 2019 at 01:20
so my 21 year old daughter is suffering from depression. She tells me she wants to take her life. Should I let her. Or assume that her ideal desire if...
January 25, 2019 at 00:03
is that some type of agreement that no where in that work you linked she ever applied that criteria specifically to determine the moral standing of th...
January 24, 2019 at 23:13
i have now been back of that document 3 or 4 times and I cant see where Ms. Nussbaun uses those criteria to establish anything with relation to the fe...
January 24, 2019 at 22:36
no disrespect but I am not sure you are understanding the concept correctly. The concept is what others should assume the person would desire, if they...
January 24, 2019 at 22:21
The embodied mind, a the definition of a person, which you are almost making here, is IMO the only logical argument for delineating a non-arbitrary cr...
January 24, 2019 at 22:17
in my argument, and in subsequent accounts Dr. Marquis uses something about 2 weeks after the process of conception, around 16 cells, after the prospe...
January 24, 2019 at 22:06
Tim - after giving lot of time for others to do this, in the spirit of the honest exchange of ideas I will help you all with the best argument I know ...
January 24, 2019 at 22:03
So andrew there is the concept of "ideal desire" . It goes something like this. I am in an accident, and require life support. I am unconscious and un...
January 24, 2019 at 19:12
Better said than I can: Scalia's partial concurrence in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 1992: "The States may, if they wish, permit abortion on demand, b...
January 24, 2019 at 15:30
I have made (robbed) my arguments both for the the morality of abortion based on the nature of the fetus, and the use of the mothers body, and I have ...
January 24, 2019 at 15:02
point to consider, other than euthanasia, which is briefly addressed, but not particularly problematic, I can not think of another example where we wo...
January 24, 2019 at 11:19
Tim not sure how much of my posts you have read, but in the last one I address legality. And acknowledge that even if abortion in many cases is immora...
January 23, 2019 at 23:37
a soul, if such a thing is, is immaterial to my completely secular arguments.
January 23, 2019 at 22:50
just occasionally it would be nice if you even make a feeble attempt at supporting one of your pronouncements
January 23, 2019 at 22:37
thanks I admittedly skimmed the article twice - and in general I applaud the CA approach as way of evaluating a quality of life in a nation. Now I und...
January 23, 2019 at 21:42
I get the reference
January 23, 2019 at 17:53
so Tim there is a logical order of these arguments and not taking them in order just adds confusion and lack of clarity to what is being discussed. Ki...
January 23, 2019 at 17:48
here is the argument: The Violinist in the coma An argument and rebuttals on the fetus right to the use of the woman’s body – heavily borrowed from Dr...
January 23, 2019 at 17:15
have not made that case yet, will do. Understanding your point, is the hypothetical you are assuming Dr Marquies makes is: a. we adult human beings do...
January 23, 2019 at 15:57
Mrs Banno in the wine cellar with a gun Last night Banno goes down into his cellar in search of a 2012 Screaming Eagle Cab to celebrate a particularly...
January 23, 2019 at 15:51
Rank Amateur's desire is to have the argument expressed in terms that suit him. Don't play along. How about you show where the propositions are false,...
January 23, 2019 at 11:15
pardon my ignorance, can you explain the objection again so an idiot and rank amateur like myself can understand it. It is, and has been the most publ...
January 23, 2019 at 11:07
— tim wood No, we can get there. But not from my argument. In the next argument,that is the fetus does have a right to live, does it have ar right to ...
January 23, 2019 at 11:01
No, we can get there. But not from my argument. In the next argument,that is the fetus does have a right to live, does it have ar right to the use of ...
January 23, 2019 at 10:58
As I mentioned at the end of the argument it does not address the right of the fetus to the use of the woman's body, that is a different discussion. H...
January 23, 2019 at 10:54