RE: Contraception vs. abortion
April 6, 2013 at 9:33 pm
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2013 at 9:36 pm by jstrodel.)
When you identify a person, do you appeal to material causes? When you call someone by there name, does their name change when their hair grows? But their hair make them different at a molecular level?
How do you define a person? Obviously it is not material causes, otherwise personal identity would be wrong and would change depending on changing circumstances.
The identify of a person is a metaphysical identity, which begins when the person begins. It is not related to consciousness, because that changes. It is not related to physical structure, because that changes. It is related to the persons physical structure.
If life does not begin at conception, there is no life at all, only shifting material substances that are considered to have the name "X", and granted conditional acceptability by the state as having life.
So it is not people who have rights, but the state who defines what people are and gives them rights, it is not the biological relations that define what a person is, it is the state who defines biology.
Your name does not come from your seed, it comes from the state, in other words. It is the state who defines you as what you are, not the natural growth of you seed.
Here, as in everywhere, the state is the authority in the world of the authoritarian liberal, who defines everything in terms of an aggressive public psuedo-philosophy.
How do you define a person? Obviously it is not material causes, otherwise personal identity would be wrong and would change depending on changing circumstances.
The identify of a person is a metaphysical identity, which begins when the person begins. It is not related to consciousness, because that changes. It is not related to physical structure, because that changes. It is related to the persons physical structure.
If life does not begin at conception, there is no life at all, only shifting material substances that are considered to have the name "X", and granted conditional acceptability by the state as having life.
So it is not people who have rights, but the state who defines what people are and gives them rights, it is not the biological relations that define what a person is, it is the state who defines biology.
Your name does not come from your seed, it comes from the state, in other words. It is the state who defines you as what you are, not the natural growth of you seed.
Here, as in everywhere, the state is the authority in the world of the authoritarian liberal, who defines everything in terms of an aggressive public psuedo-philosophy.
