praxis

Frankly, I don’t think the current state of affairs allows significant fixing. Democrats will have a comeback after Trump/Republican policies destabil...

What are the implications?

If not evolution then from God? I wrote that valuing human life is ingrained and the reason (you requested reasoning) I think it's ingrained is becaus...

There’s a lot of really bad slight of hand going on. According to Malcolm Gladwell, it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master a complex skill.

If it were necessary for zygotes to have ‘evolved into our psyches’ then there couldn’t be a minority that values them.

Alright, have it your way. Why do I value human life? I think it’s deeply ingrained, shaped by a mix of biological, psychological, social, and cultura...

Via inept SS?

It seems like there’s a point to these questions so please, let’s skip to the point.

I never kid about zygotes.

Your point being that if I value persons I should also value zygotes? I do value zygotes.

I recognize the image on the right as a person and I don't recognize the image on the left as a person.

I doubt waiting will improve it. I’ll just assume that, like myself, you don’t recognize the image on the left as a person.

:roll:

Babies and adults have qualities that match my concept of ‘person’. https://i.postimg.cc/PqfvSTGL/zygotebaby.jpg I assume by not answering that you do...

I already explained because I recognize it as such. We can see many personal things about the baby in the picture. It looks caucasian, has light hair,...

https://i.postimg.cc/PqfvSTGL/zygotebaby.jpg I recognize the image on the right as a person. I don't recognize the image on the left as a person. If y...

You asked specifically about the aspect of individual recognition in personhood and I responded. You said my response was interesting and good. We don...

Referring to someone as a human being emphasizes their biological identity as a member of the species Homo sapiens. Referring to someone as a person f...

I can’t touch, feel, smell or hear it. Visually it doesn’t look like a person to me. Do you see a person?

https://i.postimg.cc/RCGnkr0w/zygote.png This is not a picture of a person, Fire. Some people may think it's a person because that's what they've been...

The term "person" highlights aspects of existence tied to social, moral, or individual recognition rather than strictly biological features. Did you r...

I suppose that pro-life advocates must view Josseli Barnica and Navaeh Crain as necessarily sacrifices based on religious beliefs. The more things cha...

https://i.postimg.cc/7hjtrQP8/IMG-0670.webp In the news today, Josseli Barnica from Texas died of an infection because doctors couldn’t properly treat...

I looked it up and the Catholic Church considers abortion murder, so if you’ve been involved in an abortion somehow and are unrepentant, and maybe esp...

And about being damned, the damning is eternal. The eternal part of eternal damnation is far from incidental, if you asked me. :grimace:

Something that exists in a life from conception to beyond life and regardless of the physical condition of any part of life sounds pretty fixed to me....

I’m not sure what it means for something to equate with essentialism. Catholics believe that the soul is immortal (can’t die or decay) and is the esse...

No, but Catholic's do. If the immortal soul isn’t the essence of someone then what is it?

I hate to answer a question with a question but can you name anything that doesn’t die or decay?

It's not the amorphous nature of the concept that makes it essentialist, it's the immortal nature. We touched on this before you volunteered your fait...

I think they can be. There is actually a lot of freedom in the concept. The sticking point is that the concept is part of a tradition and traditions a...

You believe that using words is essentialist? I don’t think that religious beliefs are immutable. If fact, earlier I mentioned how the Catholic positi...

Essentially, a Catholic cannot reject essentialism because of the belief in an immoral soul. Catholics believe that the soul enters the body at concep...

How about starting with whether or not you reject essentialism?

Roman Catholicism The Roman Catholic view is that baptism is necessary for salvation and that it frees the recipient from original sin. Roman Catholic...

Catholics have an idea and you claim to be a Catholic.

I don’t know how science could be the ultimate authority on the issue. It can’t, for instance, prove or disprove the existence of a soul.

For centuries the answer was limbo because they are unbaptized. Relatively recently the higherup decided that the fate of the unbaptized was up to God...

Supporting policy that is against your principles or faith only means that your principles or faith are weak. ** Before continuing I'd like to persona...

The following for starters. Six months is pretty extreme. To your fellow Catholics. To God. And if you don’t care about them and how you represent the...

I searched for “religion” posted by Fire and it was easy to find. Cat’s out of the bag now, Fire. You got some splaining ta do.

:lol: Not helpful.

Odd choice of quote for the context. Any keywords that would help me discover the secret?

Music appreciation.

There isn’t just one aspect to being human obviously. NOS and Frank are dissatisfied with the humanity of pre-borns and feel they must be somehow huma...

Secret religions and abortion at six months is definitely creepy.

If I'm right then you've just sealed your death warrant by revealing the secret sect of Satanism.

Very well, let's proceed and assume all things you've said are true. It will force me to make some assumptions about your views and it would be far mo...

I wonder if there’s a law similar to Godwin.

You implied that I asked you about it. I didn’t. Why did you volunteer that you’re religious?