Michael

So a foetus doesn’t have a right to live unless some authority declares and confers that right? Then what exactly are you trying to argue here? Becaus...

That's not a right. That's a supposed description of a right. The words are not the thing they describe. I'm not asking you to point to words that des...

Relevant paper on that last point: Could Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate?

So a right is a piece of paper with ink markings? That doesn't seem right. And that's the point of departure. It is argued that it is not wrong to dep...

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mYUAAOSwrR9mJ0tH/s-l400.jpg My school sickbay had a clock like this.

https://www.mapsinternational.co.uk/pub/media/catalog/product/x/u/p/upside-down-world-wall-map-political-without-flags_wm00626.jpg

Or maybe Japan. https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ef4df496715184e4f50afddba1ef23e0-lq

So Azores it is.

@"NOS4A2" I should add that I'm also somewhat perplexed by your questioning of personhood but your acceptance of rights. Can you point to rights? If n...

Think of the difference between a wave and still water. All waves are water but not all water is a wave. The body (specifically the brain) has to be d...

It's gradual. Let's take the pro-life argument I offered at the start: The counter argument is: P1. It is wrong to kill a baby the day after birth. P2...

But not all of them involve killing an embryo or foetus. That is a significant moral difference.

Abortion is nothing like infanticide or child sacrifice.

Let's take the words of Albert Einstein as an example: If you want to argue that naive realism is correct then fine, but it's clearly the unscientific...

Maybe laymen and philosophers, but that's not the view of those who study perception scientifically. Take Perception#Process_and_terminology for examp...

I don't understand what you're trying to argue here. I am simply explaining that we very often, both in particle physics and everyday life, observe on...

Even the direct realist (if also a scientific realist) can believe in the existence of things that he cannot directly perceive (e.g. electrons and dar...

I am able to believe that there is something under my covers without looking under my covers. I use what I can see to infer the existence of something...

Lots of things we do are “unnatural”. But then also killing one’s offspring happens in nature too. There are various species of birds that occasionall...

Moral realism can be true even if moral truths cannot be determined.

It doesn't depend on your standpoint on the status of a foetus. It depends on what the law says. If the law defines the crime of murder as including t...

Doing the right thing is more important, even if it appears "inconsistent".

Why?

Well, this is the issue I have with morality in general. I don't think any moral claims are either verifiable or falsifiable. Unlike science and maths...

I'm pro-choice.

That's why I said "abortion may be morally impermissible". The point I was making is that @"Samlw" was assuming consequentialism in his defence of abo...

Unless that philosophical theory is true. If deontology is correct and the moral permissibility of abortion is determined by rules and principles rath...

The counter claim is that either: a) the benefits of an abortion do not outweigh the loss of a foetus' life, or b) moral value is not determined by be...

You are the one who claimed that it is acceptable kill a foetus if it is unconscious and unacceptable to kill a foetus if it is conscious. You must ex...

That question has no bearing on the pro-life claim that abortion is wrong. A pro-life advocate could equally be a vegan and believe that killing anima...

As I asked you before, why is consciousness the measure of the right to life? Hanover offered the example of killing an unconscious person. I'll add t...

It is moral to take away your choice to kill a foetus for the same reason that it is moral to take away your choice to kill me; both the foetus and I ...

They have a legal right, sure, but the question is whether or not we have a moral right. Do I have the basic (moral) right to kill you if you annoy me...

Well that's a slippery slope fallacy.

You've begged the question by assuming that we have the right to an abortion. Why is consciousness the measure of the right to life?

Well, we could start with perhaps a premise that we all agree with: P1. It is wrong to kill a baby the day after birth. The argument would then be: P2...

They believe that abortion is murder. Telling them that abortion should be a choice is, to them, telling them that murder should be a choice. Most of ...

I don't quite get the problem. Let's say that there's something hiding under my bed cover. I cannot see under my cover to see what it is; I can only s...

So at least we agree with the principle that some speech shouldn't be allowed. The difficulty is in deciding exactly which speech shouldn't be allowed...

On the other hand it seems reasonable to punish people for knowingly false bomb threats.

I just drink Huel. I hate food. Cooking and eating is a hassle.

Are you suggesting that slander and bomb threats shouldn’t be illegal?

Why is slander illegal? Why are bomb threats illegal? We criminalise certain speech because we believe that allowing them would do more harm than good...

And presumably the suggestion is that the criminal code should include such things as misinformation along with slander and so on.

If by "coloured objects" you just mean "objects which reflect light which cause colour sensations" then sure. But that's dispositionalism, not naive c...

And this is where you're making a mistake. Visual sensations are events in the body (specifically events in the visual cortex). Depth is a characteris...

We need to change how the object reflects light because the wavelength of the light that stimulates the eyes is what determines the type of colour sen...

We just use those things to change the way an object’s surface reflects light. That does not suggest that colour is a mind-independent property of the...

It would be helpful if colour realists explain which of these they believe: 1. “the apple is red” means “the apple reflects ~700nm light” 2. The apple...

Objects outside the body just reflect different wavelengths of light. This light causes one type of colour sensation in humans and another type of col...