(June 3, 2014 at 3:20 pm)alpha male Wrote:(June 3, 2014 at 3:02 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: I've already answered that question. The answer is "no". Are you ready to drop this red herring now?Why not? Why is human thought more valuable than other animal's thoughts? You make a big deal about aliens and AI, but if you find it morally acceptable to kill thinking animals, you could also kill thinking aliens or robots.
Quote:Ah, so you're pro-life but you won't be bombing any abortion clinics or otherwise taking matters into your own hands. That's good to know but insofar as our discussion on abortion is concerned, this is a distinction without a difference.Just the wording. Your description above is accurate.
So having established that you are pro-life, you recognize that your beliefs about when life begins are completely arbitrary (see your repeated posts about how this is just your opinion) but if you could, your arbitrary whims would be forced on women to make choices for them.
Got it. Why so evasive?
Note that your beliefs about when life begins are also arbitrary, and so far you haven't denied that you support imposing your arbitrary whims on women to make choices for them. Please clarify - do you advocate that women should be prohibited from getting abortions at will past a certain point in pregnancy? If so, what do you think of the article I posted? Why are you comfortable with "I'm pro-choice but..."?
Quote:Pro-choice. I don't know of anyone in the pro-choice movement who thinks women should have 3rd trimester abortions on demand.Interesting choice of trimesters, as your cutoff of 21 weeks is 2nd trimester. What do you think of 2nd trimester abortions?
And why doesn't anyone you know support a woman's right to choose in the 3rd trimester?
The magical word: "Viability"
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"