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"The Arrival" (Spoiler Free(cause I haven't seen it))
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RE: "The Arrival" (Spoiler Free(cause I haven't seen it))
I don't think it's pro-life in the anti-abortion sense that many people seem to take the meaning of that term. Even the sites that are claiming it as "pro-life" compare it to people who chose to have children they know will die....but in all real life instances, those children die within hours or days of birth, not years or decades. So it's not even comparable with that.

I do think it's either deterministic, or pro-choice, depending on if you think she chose it, or was already pre-determined to have that experience. After all, there would have been a time paradox of where she got all the info that helped her solve the language puzzle in the first place if she didn't go on to have those experiences, so I think it's deterministic.

I hope that's spoiler free. Just go see the movie, and decide for yourself! lol.
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― Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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RE: "The Arrival" (Spoiler Free(cause I haven't seen it)) - by Aroura - February 6, 2017 at 12:57 pm

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