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To be fair it is typical American political pandering. Kamala headquarters noticed they are failing with that demographic, historically so, so their p...

It means you’re a certain kind of animal, a great ape, and a member of the last extant species of man. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human

Kamala introduces racist policies, forgivable loans so long as you have a certain skin-color. Media silent. https://twitter.com/kamalaharris/status/18...

I'm curious if you'd take issue with hundreds of thousands of Europeans migrating to another continent en masse, perhaps entering countries illegally,...

She doesn’t need to buy their votes.

ABC fact checks the Kamala campaigns lies about Trump’s most recent town hall. https://twitter.com/collinrugg/status/1846179930490724807?s=46&t=IakyLv...

Kamala introduces racist policies, forgivable loans so long as you have a certain skin-color. Media silent. Edit: Sorry, wrong thread. https://twitter...

Not if it classifies a stage of human development. But when it’s posited as a different being, certainly.

But it is genetically distinct from the mother. If it’s not another, what is it? An organ? A parasite? A zygote is a very brief stage of development o...

I wasn’t aware that one needed to know and care if he was being treated morally. What facts are vague? I ask because we actually know a lot about zygo...

Every single one of you were zygotes. Luckily no one treated you with such disregard.

The only thing grey and ambiguous about it is the position. The vagueness of the terms used to describe it and the arbitrariness of the acceptable tim...

Yes, I’m using the language in the hope that you know what they mean. I’m not sharing with you meaning, or anything weird like that. If we could share...

As long as you understand that a human fetus would develop those complex cognitive functions—indeed was in the process of development—had you not kill...

There is nothing else with our genetic makeup. There is only one extant species of human beings.

None of the things I mentioned are genetically similar to human beings in any way.

"Shared meaning", "consciousness", "inter-subjectivity", "uniqueness", "sameness"—all of these words lack any referent in time and space, despite what...

Which non-human organisms with human DNA are you talking about?

Many things have human DNA, like sperm or a pool of saliva. Human beings have more than DNA.

I use the term "human being" in the sense that it is a member of species homo sapiens, whether it is developed or not. A fetus is not of some other sp...

Yes, it is always wrong to kill an innocent human being; that’s what such a principle entails. But contrary to your assumption, I wouldn’t think that ...

I don’t think anything should be outlawed.

It deprives her of life, a future, and the world of her presence. It devalues life, it inflicts unnecessary harm…but mostly it’s unjust. She innocent....

What if the mother wants the child. Does the zygote then deserve a chance at life and become worthy of protection, or is it still disposable? Yes, it ...

Now we’re on to something. What biological differences make it not wrong to kill an embryo, but wrong to kill a baby? I’ve already described my reason...

I would refrain as best as possible from positing phantom properties and folk biology. The baby was an embryo. No embryo, no baby, no human being. But...

Yes, it’s the woman’s choice. Let’s hope she makes the moral one.

Sometimes you have to show, not tell. I ask you to point to what you’re referring to and you point to a human being. I agree that’s a human being. If ...

I forget the context but I don’t think a country’s legal system has to make the decision.

I don’t understand why I need to point to a property of “wrongness”. I also never said someone needs to point to a measurable property of being a pers...

A lot of people do blame culture, certainly.

One cannot be against a culture or blame it for blameworthy acts because only individuals can perform blameworthy acts. One has to avoid holistic meth...

Sorry, I didn’t know this was an interview. You’re making nouns out of my adjectives. I don’t believe wrongness and rightness and rights are measurabl...

The beginning of a life is an arbitrary starting point?

There needs to be some basis for granting rights in the first place.

Sure, but parents and abortionists also make that distinction with or without the law.

Anyone can confer a right. And I was just explaining my view of rights, like you asked. I’m sorry but there is hardly any consensus as to what a perso...

Those are rights. It is a bill of rights. A deceleration of human rights is a declaration of rights, without which there are no rights. It is up to th...

Fetuses do not exist in a void. Fetuses can be interacted with. If they couldn't, they wouldn't be killed.

That’s one of their manifestations, sure. Grab any bill of rights and point to a right, you’ll have your answer in what it consists of. If there is mo...

Maybe that’s it. Maybe “person” is a doing rather than a thing. The having of feelings, thoughts, memories etc. are doings, after all. Humans person. ...

I understand, and have no problem with either term in common usage, but if I were to ask you to point to whatever it is you're referring to you would ...

I can't see it from your position because there is no evidence for it. It cannot be shown that personhood or soul or "I" enter or leave the body at an...

Yes, it is still you even with damage to the head.

A relevant change would be a hole in your head and damage to very important parts of your body. It's much different than a broken arm in that it's a d...

Yeah, that was you the whole time, the biology. It's all you are. It's all you will be.

It all seems very arbitrary. It’s not unlike the soul concept. You could ask your mother. You could watch any human birth. Look at sonograms and infer...

Are those who do not respond not persons? Are persons and subjects living human beings or are they not? Point proven. I’ll put you down as the first p...

I don’t know what an “actual person” is. What I do know is that a human being forms, and that morality ought to concern human beings. Biology and anth...

It refers to the earliest stages of every human being that ever existed. There is no biological evidence that a soul or “actual person” forms at any p...