Abortion and Women's Rights

[John V]

Since I'm tired of this run around, I'll just note that you can't justify why you are justified in forcing what you admit are just your personal opinions on others to make decisions for them.

And I'll just note that you do the same. Writing a few paragraphs on your reasoning does not justify your position. It's still just your opinion. That's why I don't bother writing about my position. It will still be just my opinion.

You have done nothing in this debate but utilize Red Herring and Tu Quoque evasion tactics as well as employed dishonest semantics to further obfuscate rather than clarify. You have ignored my lengthy posts on self-awareness and why this is a factor in determining moral obligations and keep repeating the "life begins at conception" mantra, pretending this is somehow an equivalent argument.

I haven't ignored your posts on self-awareness, I've shown multiple problems that result from your position. Not that this is specific to your position, I've acknowledged that all definitions of personhood or beginning of life run into problems. I'm OK with that, but you for some reason think that you've justified your opinion and can dictate the rights of women because you wrote a lengthy post and inserted a Star Trek clip.

And as if all this weren't bad enough, you confused Star Trek and Star Wars.

Actually I did that on purpose to tick you off, and was disappointed when you didn't say anything. I'm now pleased to hear that you noticed. I didn't watch your clip (that's a policy of mine), but I do recall that episode (vaguely) from back when it originally aired. I recall Number Two (again intentional) hitting an off button on Data's back.

So I'm content at this point to agree to disagree, confident that you have been fully exposed as a sanctimonious, busy-body, dishonest, bullying dickhead.

I'm sure that's how the majority see it just due to bias. If they're objective, they'll note that you have the same position regarding rights to abortion as I do, you just have a different opinion (yes, despite your "lengthy" explanation it's still just an opinion) on when life starts.