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it was explained with the concept or ideal desire, and it is possessed exactly the same way you possess yours. If your future is not yours, who's is i...
January 22, 2019 at 21:33
OK ?? not really sure what to say to that. Thanks for the opinion I guess.
January 22, 2019 at 19:49
agree - that was the intent. As far as I know there are really only 2 good arguments against the existence of God. The argument from Evil, and a host ...
January 22, 2019 at 18:50
ha
January 22, 2019 at 18:22
for those on this thread - a little more complete argument - ARGUMENT FOR THE FUTURE VALUE Mostly stolen with some adaption from Dr. Don Marquis P1. O...
January 22, 2019 at 18:21
ARGUMENT FOR THE FUTURE VALUE Mostly stolen with some adaption from Dr. Don Marquis P1. One definition of murder is the loss of one’s future of value ...
January 22, 2019 at 17:55
sorry one more important part, if we determine there is a morally justified reason to kill the fetus due to its nature we are done. If however we dete...
January 22, 2019 at 10:39
and finally for now I would propose that in all topics on abortion there is a first order question, and that is, is it morally permissible. Because if...
January 22, 2019 at 10:21
next can we agree that without justification, (and for the sake of staying on topic be generous to each other and allow we would generally have same d...
January 22, 2019 at 10:14
and can we also agree to define abortion in this thread as the deliberate ending of a human pregnancy by artificial means that results in the death th...
January 22, 2019 at 09:52
can we start with the biology, and agree on some things as facts first. I propose as a matter of fact that every human on this planet can trace their ...
January 22, 2019 at 09:38
don’t think I make such an error. I understand the basis of my beliefs. And no issue with those with the courage to believe otherwise. Just pity the b...
January 22, 2019 at 03:53
if you leave a blood cell alone it becomes a blood cell, if you leave a fetus alone it becomes well us.
January 21, 2019 at 23:41
nice pun. Too late it died awhile back.
January 21, 2019 at 23:36
Baby’s use of her body. If you would actually take a second to read and understand what we are talking about this would go faster
January 21, 2019 at 23:34
And we are back at the beginning again- have to run and this Twitter fight is a waste of time
January 21, 2019 at 23:20
in a moment a big steak and hopefully a bigger red wine. Dinner with friends- enjoy your night
January 21, 2019 at 23:11
And pure fact and fact. And I con And neither does a 3 month old - you ok with infanticide? I said if willing infanticide there is one logical personh...
January 21, 2019 at 23:06
what we are half heartedly discussing is a concept of personhood, when is still ok to kill this human being and why then. And to bury the lead because...
January 21, 2019 at 22:41
sorry too fast, as I have said somewhere above, I and biology believe we are all fully human, fully unique and fully alive human beings after the proc...
January 21, 2019 at 22:37
of course not.
January 21, 2019 at 22:34
ok we agreed you were a cyst and now you are a human being. Explain the metamorphosis to me, So I can know exactly when it changes from being able to ...
January 21, 2019 at 22:26
Try taking out the word Christian in your sentence and insert black people and see how it reads You don't really believe this do you, it's a joke righ...
January 21, 2019 at 22:22
for the noseeum argument against the existence of God.
January 21, 2019 at 22:14
so at what point exactly do we stop being cysts and why then?
January 21, 2019 at 22:12
so what you are saying is at one time you were nothing but a cyst
January 21, 2019 at 22:00
Agree - I am not asking for any scientific acceptance of God at all if that is what the last sentence is saying. Granted, and maybe I liked the metaph...
January 21, 2019 at 21:57
I agree almost completely with this. Faith based beliefs are not philosophy and I have never, or at least never intentionally portrayed them as such. ...
January 21, 2019 at 21:48
scientific fact says no such thing. Scientific fact says they do not know. What is the consensus scientific view, is the universe is finite and had a ...
January 21, 2019 at 21:35
make a serious argument and I will respond, have no time for these twitter type one liners
January 21, 2019 at 21:15
does your arrogance have any bounds. Don’t answer, Rhetorical You had no idea the argument existed 2 days ago. The argument has existed for near 30 ye...
January 21, 2019 at 19:46
if you wish to discount the argument on the " flap of butterfly wing defense" it would be a must simpler process to try and identify what state of aff...
January 21, 2019 at 17:24
for those who like video evidence - a good debate with Peter Singer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qfiq18DMYk
January 21, 2019 at 16:56
just fyi Don Marquis (born 1935) is an American philosopher whose main academic interests are in ethics and medical ethics. Marquis is currently Emeri...
January 21, 2019 at 16:53
i make to fact claim about God at all - other than there is none. If you wish to make an arguement to me that in fact God is not I would be happy to a...
January 21, 2019 at 16:40
You left out the group that read the holy books, looked at their message and their purpose. Thought deeply about them. And find meaning in them, and b...
January 21, 2019 at 16:37
on viability: sadly a mother and her 3 month old baby are in a car accident - the mother is fine but the child is seriously hurt. The doctors talk to ...
January 21, 2019 at 16:20
Agree - why I have never made the the claim that God is. I have only made the claim - I, as a matter of faith, believe God is. And this belief is not ...
January 21, 2019 at 15:32
Here is my honest cut on where the best philosophic arguments are on the morality of abortion. these are all in a nutshell - all can be more fully dev...
January 21, 2019 at 15:10
a cyst is not a fetus, or an embryo, it is a cyst a fetus is a human being in a specific state of development, an embryo is a human being in a certain...
January 21, 2019 at 14:22
all human beings, you, me and every one else in the world began our life in time and space on this world at the completion of conception. At the compl...
January 21, 2019 at 11:03
as you wish. Enjoy the rest of your evening.
January 21, 2019 at 03:48
you read 1 sentence of probability the best pro choice, pro woman argument and make a complete judgment of it. amazing.
January 21, 2019 at 03:37
what? Dr thomsons argument is completely about the right of the mother to control the use of her body, and it is completely a pro choice argument. Wha...
January 21, 2019 at 03:16
because the mother has no more basis in this argument, than the mother of a 1 year old would have. However, this pro abortion argument is I think the ...
January 21, 2019 at 03:14
here is the first paragraph which seems appropriate The view that abortion is, with rare exceptions, seriously immoral has received little support in ...
January 21, 2019 at 02:55
if you wish to read a dispassionate argument against the moral permissibility of abortion, prob a 15 minute read https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vance...
January 21, 2019 at 02:52
Do you believe the moral permissibility of abortion is a settled item, unworthy of challenge?
January 21, 2019 at 02:40
no clue where all that came from. Or what you think, or thought by my statement. My only point was, the first order question is, is abortion murder? I...
January 21, 2019 at 02:27
you spent 3 days fighting it wasn't even reasonable, never mind a real possibility
January 21, 2019 at 00:37