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Come on, Bob. Yes, a foetus is not a cyst. A blastocyst is a cyst. The embryo develops in part of the blastocyst. It is considered a foetus from 8 to ...

Yep. Also Dobbs. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Implied rights are not so firm, as recent history demonstrates: If it where as you claim, it ...

PhilPapers 2020 asked Quite overwhelmingly, professional philosophers are in favour of abortion on demand in the first trimester. And again, god is in...

I agree the Roe-Wade decision was a pretty poor basis for such things. Explicit law is needed.

Dear Hanover, nor do I. What is despicable is forcing others to conform to what folk think their invisible friend wants. By all means, may 'merca have...

Sure. The mother carries the child, and so has the greater part. The father can play their part by convincing the mother that they will provide suffic...

Yes, it is. Yet this reading of Singer is there. As a result, folk with disabilities wisely reject such naked consequentialism.

To be sure, it is with good reason! The capabilities approach has a stronger and broader notion of personhood. It incorporates the social model of dis...

Excuses. The failure of the USA to correct the decline of its democratic institutions is a global tragedy.

Yes, another thread; unfortunately even naming him in some circles, in which his arguments would be beneficial, will finish conversations. He is perso...

Given that this is around sixty percent of your population, why is it that they do not have "the power"? Or is yours a failed democracy.

It's a good argument, but unfortunately Singer mucked his credentials with some rubbish about disability. The capabilities approach strikes me as an i...

I don't need to. Have a look down the page from Pew Research linked above. Opposition to abortion is overwhelmingly from white evangelical protestant ...

Seriously? So you have given up on rationality. Fine. See you on the ramparts.

They think it is immoral, but their justification for that is shite. You know that if there were are referendum in 'Merka, abortion would be legal.

I didn't deny their feelings, just their excuse. What they think their invisible friend says is no justification for forcing their view on others. If ...

Tough. What folk think their invisible friend says is no basis for moral choice. You seem to be having trouble with the fact that the foetus develops ...

Go over it again, if you will. "Murder" is a legal term. Folk who think abortion is murder, despite it not being so on the state legal code, perhaps m...

Your terminology is muddled here, but it seems you are intent only on being a bit of a dick, so I'll leave you to it.

I don't. You raised "heart", not me. "They" think it against god's law, perhaps.

That doesn't seem to be so. Abortion is not murder if it is legal.

Not to begin with. Murder is unlawful killing. It's not murder if abortion is legal.

All that may be so, and yet it remain useful to sometimes separate what a sentence is about from what one is doing with it. To be sure, it is a mistak...

I did. A cyst is not a person. Try not to read so selectively.

No. A cyst is not a person.

Merkins.

Hmm. Or you could... cooperate....

You are pretty much in agreement with Moore and Foot, then.

I'll have my folk bill you for the therapy session.

I'm not sure you know what that means, in a philosophical context.

I'm really not following any of this.

So you have been reading quantum again. No good will come of such foolishness.

I've no idea what that might mean. I'll leave you to it.

How? I've no clear notion of what this has to do with quantification. I don;t see how one could disagree with universal quantification...

I'm asking you to apply Moore's open question to your definition of "good". It's a meta ethical request. I suspect that you realise the problem, and t...

No! That's not what it says. Rather, concepts are what we do. The difference is central. Concepts are not things! Treat this as an example in which th...

I'm not. I'm wondering about your thinking on the topic, and how it relates to It is clear Wittgenstein is rejecting any notion of treating words as j...

So what sort of thing is a concept? What more is there to any given concept than what we do?

Well, isn't it good to have all that finished with, then? Now we can move on to more fundamental things, such as why 'mercans say "cookie" when they m...

But I asked you to apply this to your "survive, to live, to thrive"... looks bang on topic to me.

Well, how else will Vivek get sales? What are the site rules about spruiking, @"Jamal"?

But "And the question will then arise whether we are still willing to use the concept of 'calculating in the head' here—or whether in such circumstanc...

For some value of "helps".

So concepts have "internal" and "external" aspects? We might leave aside for now how it is possible to talk about these "internal" aspects, and suppos...

Thanks for that, Josh. Most helpful.

Hmm. Finished, then? Nothing here inspires me to read your book. Cheers.

Consider the concept blue, the concept democracy, and the concept of cycling. What do these have in common such that we can call them all concepts? Th...

So what is good is to survive, to live, to thrive? Can you think of something that enables you to survive, and yet that is not good? Something that en...

So you say sharing a common grammar makes it possible for us to understand concepts. What are concepts?

A shame.