RE: Less anger towards religion
December 14, 2022 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2022 at 12:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Throw away arguments are the worst. "Human life begins at conception, so abortion is intentionally ending a human life."
Okay, fine. We intentionally end a great many human lives from conception onwards for a great many reasons. Something merely being the intentional ending of a human life doesn't make it a philosophical dilemma. The point of equating abortion to murder is not to mount any such case, but to tug at heartstrings which, If we're being honest, don't actually appear to work all that well when it comes to killin folks. That's probably why that line didn't work to provide the necessary demographic support for bans - leading the afflicted to do a judicial end run on american governance. They hope to support this with similar antidemocratic schemes to diminish human rights at the state and local level.
The depths they'll stoop to in order to achieve this are, at least, good for a laugh. Things like asserting that pregant people should be able to use hov lanes. Seems funny until you realize that it's a plot to give the fetus some sort of standing in traffic regulations...and if it matters for some regulations.....
Meanwhile, the abrahamic god thinks abortions are kosher - to say nothing of the various other ways that human lives (and indeed all life) are ended. It's just his poor demented followers here on earth causing the trouble.
Okay, fine. We intentionally end a great many human lives from conception onwards for a great many reasons. Something merely being the intentional ending of a human life doesn't make it a philosophical dilemma. The point of equating abortion to murder is not to mount any such case, but to tug at heartstrings which, If we're being honest, don't actually appear to work all that well when it comes to killin folks. That's probably why that line didn't work to provide the necessary demographic support for bans - leading the afflicted to do a judicial end run on american governance. They hope to support this with similar antidemocratic schemes to diminish human rights at the state and local level.
The depths they'll stoop to in order to achieve this are, at least, good for a laugh. Things like asserting that pregant people should be able to use hov lanes. Seems funny until you realize that it's a plot to give the fetus some sort of standing in traffic regulations...and if it matters for some regulations.....
Meanwhile, the abrahamic god thinks abortions are kosher - to say nothing of the various other ways that human lives (and indeed all life) are ended. It's just his poor demented followers here on earth causing the trouble.
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