(May 26, 2014 at 10:53 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(May 26, 2014 at 10:43 pm)Heywood Wrote: People said it wasn't immoral to kill native americans...they weren't people...they were savages. The problem with your position is it is completely arbitrary.....these human beings are okay to kill....these aren't. I don't make an arbitrary choice on which human beings are okay to kill and which aren't.
Ah yes, that's right: you'll only stop ducking my arguments when I put them in green.
So you've swapped one equivocation for another, here; the reason it was wrong to kill native americans is because they were people, they were conscious and sapient, something that a fetus is not. Your claims of our position being arbitrary are simply incorrect; from the very beginning we've been telling you that the dividing line is personhood, consciousness, not mere genetics.
Strawmanning us is bad, Heywood. Especially from a guy that doesn't hesitate to call out others on perceived fallacies.
You're intimidating when you use Hulk colours.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"