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  601.  @TheDakotaFrazier  In our society, you need money to eat and live, but a career is more than just money. A healthy career is an aspiration, accomplishment and a mark of status in society. Having a good career opens a great many doors in the world we live in, and not having one closes far more. There are rich people filled with joy and poor people plagued by depression. You can find a great many joyous rich people on YouTube itself, you can find them everywhere. It's not the money that makes them happy, although it definitely helps. It's the community that their careers has ushered them into that does. "Or you can prove this by simply saying, if it was true, then happiness should correlate with how much people like their jobs." That's the perspective I had when I was a young teenager, but that's simply not a good way to look at it. We no longer live in a world where the average person can have a healthy social life that is fully separated from their work life; the cost of living everywhere is too high for that. If your career doesn't give you fulfillment, you're probably too tired to find fulfillment elsewhere. "But then what about the people who don't work that are very happy." I would love to see how those people are living. If we're talking about modern society, that can't be good. "You can be empty inside but a hobby can be a momentary escape or distraction" I suppose I shouldn't even have used the term "hobby". My only hope for a career path is currently my hobby, and if I don't turn it into a career, I will die and have lived a life that is more negative than happy. I know there are people that are worse off than me and have suffered much worse, but I would never wish that on my child. I would rather abort if I know that my child will be in the same hopeless situation that I am in. Yes, there are starving African children that grew up and made something of their lives. There are also those that didn't make it that far. Whilst life is a series of ups and downs, the circumstances we bring children into DO matter. I truly believe that in better circumstances, if my parents were more educated, I might be living a happy life right now. But no, instead I'm living paycheck to paycheck and the assets I need to even BEGIN putting the work in to make a positive change (despite the incredibly low likelihood that I will succeed, given my condition) will take me upwards of five years to save for. I'm sure you can imagine that five years of saving up for something that you probably won't even manage to pull off would put a bit of a burden on your happiness. If you don't think so, then I'd like you to change your perspective; perhaps you're lucky enough to have the strength to persevere. There is a point where if you're asking people to suffer so they can live up to your ideals, they're simply not going to have it. If you want people to have children when they think the world is not a good place for children anymore...well, let's say you succeed. Then suddenly these people have children, and they think that you are responsible for everything bad that has happened to them. It's an awful outcome all around.
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  802. ​ @PaxMundi118  "I believe that there are objective moral laws" This has never been the case throughout history. The world has always had differing views on morality, and depending on where you go and what circumstances you are in, morality changes. Murder for example is something that can sometimes be "right" to the vast majority of people, as with theft. "You contend that if one suffers significantly or has the potential to suffer significantly then it is justified to kill them. " No, this is is not my position. It is justified to kill those that wish to be killed because they are suffering, or to kill those that are inside of your body without your consent, or to choose not to give birth to a human being in the first place to prevent suffering. "The best way to approach all of this confusion is the practical one: education, prevention, supporting existing systems, reforming those that are failing, etc" This doesn't actually work, because your "objective moral laws" aren't objective, so people will never follow them. People like me will always exist, we are a type of animal and we do not have laws beyond those of nature by default. "Laws" are a contrivance. If you lost your ability to speak English, you'd find yourself a lot less confident in those "objective moral laws", because you will have no way to preach them, and will be powerless in the face of those that don't agree or care. "Do you think he should be pro-abortion?" I haven't met anyone that is pro-abortion, just pro-choice. I also haven't met anyone that is pro-life, just pro-overpopulation. That said, I don't have any of those things, so your anecdote does not affect me. I will have to make my predictions based on what I have, and based on my circumstances. Miracles are statistically rare and I don't gamble with human lives. "To say which life gets a chance and which life can be destroyed is playing God. It is assuming a moral responsibility no one rightfully possesses." This is simply not true, there is no such thing as playing God; only being human. Making decisions regarding life and death is something we all have to do, the modern world makes it less often that we have to make such literal decisions. But throughout the course of our species, that responsibility has fallen on our shoulders time and time again. You need to grow up a little if you view it as "playing god". We have bigger issues to worry about, and judging people for being human does not help. "Abortion, by its definition, involves another body, a body that is at risk of being eradicated." That's where "my body, my choice" comes from. You don't need to make that choice if another body isn't violating yours in the first place. "But if you're honest you realize: you support killing. At least be honest." I do not consider fetuses to be alive prior to birth, counting your chickens before they hatch is stupid. Sentience is a crucial part of being a human being, and self awareness is vital to personhood. We kill beings with greater sentience than a fetus by the thousand on a daily basis. "I also believe life has intrinsic meaning and purpose (to love and be loved)." I do not believe this. Love is simply a method of making life more bearable, when we die it is over. "A generation of beautiful black leaders, artists, engineers, inventors and doctors will never be." The vast majority of people that don't exist would not have been so useful. We can spend forever crying about what will "never be", but we have people that are already alive and are not adequately provided for. The abortion rate is high, but you don't seem to care why. Why not focus on making the world a better place so people willingly start to have children again? "This is the opposite of justice." You're right, it's childishness. Instead of crying over spilled milk, you're crying into the fridge over milk you haven't poured. People that exist are suffering FAR MORE than people that don't. There is an infinite number of people that don't exist, and we cannot afford to increase our population by an infinite amount. Resources are limited and we can only sustain our current population at what it is because of globalism, the Russia-Ukraine war has caused people to die of starvation. Abortion is slowing the progression of this problem. Do you have any other answers?
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  808.  @PaxMundi118  So why are those minority groups choosing abortion? It's not abortion depopulating them, it's their choices depopulating them. Much like any non-minority group, if given enough resources, they will willingly choose to have children. How crappy of that specific white woman aborting purely for racial reasons. It is absurd to claim this her racial motivations have anything to do with other people's medical decisions, though. Blame the person, not the gun. If you want to blame the gun, you'll have to consider ALL police racist as some of them do in fact perpetrate violence against specific racial demographics for racist reasons. The founder of Planned Parenthood is dead. Planned Parenthood isn't the only place women go to obtain abortions, and they're definitely not considering the agenda of a dead woman when making their own medical decisions. A certain evil man with a narrow mustache drank water, must I swear off water too because water is anti-Semitic? I'm not going to swear off laser eye surgery that could cure my blindness simply because it was tested on prisoners in Germany. In a similar light, people are continuing to play Hogwarts' Legacy despite Rowling's opinions against trans people no matter their political alignment, because their intent to enjoy the game is not relevant to her political opinion. Minorities are not suffering from abortion, they're suffering from the same thing everyone else in their financial situation is suffering from. Poverty. As poverty is, removing abortion as a decision for those minorities would only make their situation even worse. It will increase discrimination against them as they are forced to populate beyond their means and resort to crime. So here's a question for you: Do you think abortion should only be illegal for minority groups, or is race not an issue to you?
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  906. @Robin Ralson I got curious and disabled my extension to see what you were up to. I might as well set you straight on what I believe in before I turn it back on and never hear from you again. I'm male, and my sense of empathy is why I'm firmly pro-choice. I do not believe that a fetus not being born is a negative thing, and I believe that the end of life is neither good nor bad. This is because there are plenty of people out there that are suffering and choose to stop living because life is no longer a good thing for them. I do not consider fetuses to be living prior to fetal viability as I base my definition on the scientific characteristics of life, and nothing else. I reject the claim that fetuses are able to learn languages and recognize voices as they do not attain cognitive thought until long after birth. I believe that children should grow up having plenty of prospects and every opportunity to succeed, and I recognize that not everybody will have that opportunity. I believe that the number of children we have should be limited to the number of children we can provide for and have them prosper, instead of giving birth as frequently as possible and ruining life for everyone. I view abortion as a morally righteous action, as it prevents the birth of a child that either has no prospects or a family that does not want them. Cruelty can only happen to that which is alive. Death is inevitable, but suffering can be prevented. I will do what I can to prevent suffering when I see it, and create prosperity where it can happen. And with that, I really don't have anything else to say to you. If you don't agree with what I believe in, that's okay, we can agree to disagree. If you want to fight against people that believe what I do, then we'll fight back and we'll wage some form of war over it. There's middle ground, though. You don't have to have an abortion if you don't want to, and the ones that do can abort privately and you don't have to know about it. If you can't agree to that, then there will be no peace. I won't change your views, and you won't change mine, so I'm just going to toggle that extension back on and I'll never see another comment from you again. There's no need to harass someone that can't even see your comments, so I do hope you move on. Feel free to engage the people that still wish to engage with you. I'm no longer one of them.
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  1168. ​ @oscarbenigsen4538  Not everyone will be able to access your solution. Humans are more complicated than you seem to understand, and not everyone is "tireless". The best you've given is "this is how it would work in an ideal world", but we're not living in an ideal world, and we must make our decisions based upon reality. I am frequently alone, frequently depressed, and there is no means to fix either. "(please forgive. I am still growing)" This much is evident. What works for you doesn't work for me. "No one but other gays would want to take in some gay guy and all the mental illnesses associated with him, along with his desire to groom children" What the hell is wrong with you? I might as well say that you touch children because you're a member of a church. Any other example you used was fine, but that crosses the line. "We really hate one another" And you clearly have a part to play in that hatred. "Abortion will never help these women. " Abortion does help these women. It enables them to remain in control of their body and decide whether or not having children is right for them. "They need men who are willing to beat the hell out of men who get women pregnant and who will not care for them." No. If they don't want a pregnancy in the first place, violence will not make that pregnancy wanted, or any less expensive. Not everybody has the great wealth that you do. Get that through your head. " They need extended families who would never permit their own to fall. They need The Church." Will "The Church" provide for them if they enter as disrespectful atheists? Your religion isn't for everyone, and unless you'd take people in that hate your guts and never expect them to change, they don't need the church.
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  1221. We cannot have exemplary role models if the cost of labor declines as the cost of living rises. People that live close to or below the poverty line have the most "unrestrained sex" of any demographic, and parenthood is not anywhere near feasible for them to handle. The triplets experiment has already proven that you cannot "raise" a human being to follow a specific path, it's in their blood before they're born. People that have the potential to do well in life will often fail if they do not have the resources. This does not mean that if everybody was fully provided for that everyone would function well in society, but there are plenty of "average" people that are physically and mentally capable of doing better than they are. College isn't in everyone's future. Not everyone is cut out for a high-paying job, but everybody is still alive. Poor people still have the inclinations of human beings that aren't poor, they need intimate relationships to give their lives meaning, and intimate relationships means sex. Those of us with less to live for than you will never live our lives up to your expectations. Your expectations only work for the people with the means to meet them. We are all animals, and we all want to enjoy our lives. People that don't enjoy their lives tend to do bad things. They tend to care less about human lives because their own life isn't valuable to them. If I don't value my own life, why would I value yours? Why would I value the life of a fetus that I don't even consider to be a person, especially if it's going to impoverish and potentially kill me? Why would I endure the fear of a hospital visit for something I do not value? Human misery is on the rise, and abortion is one of the things that is slowing its' progression.
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  1681.  @pjelpers  Yes. !00% of abortion cases amount to self-defense. "For the same reasons someone kills an infant" Is an infant inside of your body, threatening to do great harm should you fail to remove it in time? No. I'm shutting down that argument, as I told you I would before. "And we try to judge intent of self-defense vs unjust killing on all other types of killings" This is correct. What we do not expect is for people that defend themselves to judge the intent of those they must defend themselves from. Your average citizen is not law enforcement, and they are not required to prove intent in order to use deadly means to prevent harm from being caused to their body. "Again, when just simply pointing out the common sense reality that children come from sex" No healthy person looks at children and thinks about sex, Patrick. I agree with your statements about Pride Month and I give those I see that support it some rather firm negative reinforcement. You are in no place to judge them, though. For the last time, I will not discuss sex with you. I find your obsession with it to be disturbing, and it goes against common decency. The vast majority of people in the developed world are content to view the decision to have children as something entirely separated from one's sex lives, and I will hold you to that very same standard. But more importantly than that, I will not discuss things that the 14th amendment prevents you from considering in the courtroom. If we're to be making hypothetical laws, we're to conduct ourselves like hypothetical lawyers. Women do not end the bodily autonomy of anyone when they abort; fetuses are not autonomous. If the law wants to intervene, respect for the law will drop and violence will occur. "This is law enforcing on you that there's something greater FOR YOU than your own personal bodily autonomy." This is unconstitutional, and very Chinese. People are free to choose what's the most important for them. If you think otherwise, we've got guns for that.
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  1808. ​ @star_strafe3951  If people consent to bad things happening to them just by innocently living their lives, why do we have hospitals? People consent automatically to their deaths by getting in a vehicle, sitting outside in the sun, or even getting out of bed. "Abortion" is our insurance for pregnancy. "Which is completely normal and not harmful" This is a blatant lie, as far more women suffer a decline in health or complications after childbirth as compared to women that abort. On top of that, the vast majority of women that abort believe they did the right thing. I've got studies to back that up, but I'll withhold them from this comment so as not to get filtered. Malaria is natural. Eclampsia is natural. Bears are natural. Nature is dangerous, and not always healthy. Hospitals exist so that we can resist nature when it becomes harmful to us. " If you dont want a baby dont have sex simple" This costs far too much, so I refuse. I am not willing to go the rest of my life without committed relationships, as I know they're healthy and an important part of who I am. If I were to accept your proposal, I would likely fall into depression and become one of the many people that decide to "check out" on a yearly basis. It is wrong of you to assume that I would be careless, and it is wrong of you to assume that I would have a high libido. Intimacy is necessary for human beings to be healthy. If I'm depressed because I have to spend my entire fertility as something seen as less than human, I'm definitely not going to see a baby's life as being valuable and I'll simply keep doing as I do and abort anyway. Why "tf" wouldn't I be willing to kill a baby if my life is being wasted and I no longer want to live?
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  1809.  @star_strafe3951  I've heard that term so much, "playing God". I'm not playing god, I'm being human. "And no its no epidemic" Do some googling. I almost called you a liar, but I've realized you just aren't familiar enough with the subject matter to know. It is an epidemic and therapy is not always the answer. Therapy can help, but some people have crippling mental health issues that are caused by real-world conditions. These are typically the people that "check out". "Each individual is different" You're right. I know what circumstances I would be willing to allow a child to be born into and what circumstances I could never live with. I am not willing to have my child "be sorry and die" (what the heck is wrong with you?) and have it be my responsibility. If I give birth knowing it will likely suffer due to the condition of the world we live in and my own circumstances, then I will be responsible for its' suffering. I'm not able to disassociate from my decisions like you are. Love and care might be free, but living is not. I need real-world assets in order to provide for the people I love and care for, and I may not even have enough to cope with for long enough. The vast majority of women choose abortion over adoption because they can't stomach the thought of abandoning their child. Adoption causes far more harm than I can live with, so I decline. "Imagine your own mother snatching away your chance at life because she deemed you unworthy of handling life" Okay, I'm going to have to ask for your help on that. The way I'm imagining it right now is like I never existed to be sad about it. It'd be a lot better than the way my life is right now. It'd be like nothing ever happened, and I'm okay with that.
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  1810.  @star_strafe3951  Do you think saying "life is risky" is suddenly going to make me accept risks that I'm not willing to take? Hospitals are one of our methods of resisting nature. "They havent perfected it so there are side effects which arent natural." Uh, what? Natural does not mean good. I'm just going to stand my ground, hospitals are not natural, medication is not natural, and any attempt to prevent us from dying from things that would kill us if they were left to run their course is not natural. Moving on. "Pregnancy has been happening since the beggining of our species." And? "If it was really such a bad thing and injurious to health im pretty sure we would evolve out of it" We have. That's why we developed abortion. If you still want to claim hospitals assist in natural recovery, then abortion is natural as well. "or there would be more women born so as to makeup for those dying in childbirth." This isn't how biology works. There are more men born because natural male behavior is even more dangerous than childbirth. Everything you're talking about right now is an appeal to nature fallacy; it depends first on the naive believe that nature is inherently good. I haven't met ANYBODY in my lifetime that's dumb enough to think that nature is their friend. "Obviously there will be a decline in health after childbirth but it would be like recovering after you get sick." This is false, as they do not recover. Please stop spreading misinformation about things you don't understand. "Abortions are completely different than pregnancy so you cant compare them and their results." Actually, you can. This is because a pregnancy can end in either childbirth or an abortion, and your health and odds of survival will be better if you go with the abortion. "In one you just get a period on steroids and the other is sustaining and then giving life to a child in the course of 280 days. Its apples and oranges." This is one of the most naive things I've ever read. It's both factually incorrect and serves no purpose to this discussion, so moving on. "And if you care so much about relationships and mental health maybe its not that okay you sit fine with the fact that you would rather kill a life than giveup sex is astounding." It isn't sex that I'd be giving up, but my entire life and livelihood. I would have to sacrifice intimacy, friendships and my mental health and wellbeing, and I strongly believe it would lead to the conclusion of my life. I don't have a high libido, but I can enjoy intimacy with my partner enough to maintain a relationship, I am not willing to sacrifice this thing that I need. Life is not worth living if I have to live it alone, so I would absolutely prefer to kill a life than suffer for the rest of mine just to die. "Its biologically engraved in us to love children and babies" Only in some people, I'm not one of those people. I've known people that are, and people that aren't. "dont let words and stupid narratives dispell that." You play too many videogames. One thing I will advocate for is choosing not to have children when they will become homeless, not being born is a lot like...not being born. You never wake up, you never have anything to lose. It's the same as when you go to sleep at night and don't remember your dreams. "a world of child labour and starvation." You're totally fine with perpetuating child labour and starvation? I'm not. If I had the means to stop it, I would. If I were going to bring a child into that situation and I didn't have the means to end child labour and starvation, I would choose my solution; no more children. "So why doesnt the exact same apply to a fetus with the potential of living a good life as with good guidance anyone can lead a good life" First off, not everyone can lead a good life with good guidance. Some people don't have the assets they need to live, some people have physical and mental health conditions that will torture them forever. My life isn't very good, so my children's lives will be even worse off than I am. I have found the solution, and the solution is aborting when I am not prepared to care for a child.
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  1962. ​ @carsonsmusic  You mean the fetus? Fetuses do not have sentient minds and are not people. I'm not particularly concerned with bills that ensure women remain the primary patient in abortion care, it's better for their health. "because only half (51%) of people who had abortions used any form of birth control" This is false information, as this data cannot be accurately gathered due to people having the right of privacy. That said, the supposed half that DID use birth control and had it fail should not be punished for those that opted not to use birth control. Sometimes, birth control may not be taken due to unexpected circumstances. This is not a valid reason to punish women by stripping them of their right to bodily autonomy, either. Abortion as a primary form of birth control is a myth. It isn't healthy, it is expensive, and there are incentives to use proper birth control. Increase the quality of sex education and stop preaching abstinence and the rates of unprotected sex will decrease. Unfortunately for you, abortion remains a vital part of a healthy society. Vilifying sex accomplishes one thing; creating resentment and ignorance. When a tyrannical state government outlaws abortion, people perceive that as an anti-sex stance as it greatly increases the risk with no good reason. This causes individuals to stop listening to anti-sex rhetoric and reduces birth control awareness by making sex a taboo topic. This doesn't make members of our species any less sexual in nature and without a significant increase in asexuality, greatly raises the number of accidental and teenage pregnancies. Of course, the impact of this is greater and significantly more concerning on individuals that come from less fortunate families. As is regularly observed, the first world has a lower birth rate than developing countries, and there are several factors to point to as the cause. For one, poorer people tend to have access to lower quality education, and tend to "misbehave" more due to the hardship that comes with their circumstances. This misbehavior can often overwhelm the education systems that are in place, leading disadvantaged individuals to receive an even lower quality education and have no prospects. People with no prospects in the first world cannot simply "work harder" to increase their output, first world societies must first have a place for them to work. Typically, disadvantaged individuals are not able to secure significant enough pay to make savings AND cover medical bills for the numerous health issues that often crop up in these troubled families, so they remain have-nots. Have-nots, as the name implies, have nothing to lose, and tend not to have any hopes for the future. People without hope for the future are reckless, and preaching abstinence to them is not going to work. They have sex to cope with their circumstances and aren't even likely to listen to a lecture on birth control. At this point, little can be done for them but improving their circumstances so their offspring will be more receptive to education, but these disadvantaged families STILL exist, and they STILL are going to do what they need to do to cope with existing under such unfortunate circumstances. I am conscious of this cycle of suffering, and recognize that improving peoples circumstances, education and increasing access to abortion services are the only ways to put an end to the cycle. If you wish to blame those that are victims to the cycle, would you blame a tiger for killing and eating someone? No, it's a wild, predatory animal. It does what tigers do, and humans are going to do what humans do when they're born into poor circumstances. If you know the next generation will follow the same path as the first and choose not to help improve their circumstances, you are stepping into the tiger enclosure. You know what's going to happen, and it is your fault, not theirs. Some would use this analogy to support anti-sex rhetoric, but pregnancy is actually an uncommon occurrence should one do their due diligence. "Uncommon" still means "nearly guaranteed to happen at least once in your lifetime", but one or two abortions a lifetime is not excessive. Should someone maintain a safe distance from the enclosure when visiting the zoo, and the tiger somehow escapes its' enclosure, one should not have to lay down and accept death when they took every necessary precaution. Pregnancy is no different. The cautious are already going through enough anxiety as it is, don't punish them when they're already doing their part.
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  1963.  @carsonsmusic  Why would you want to kill people that are sleeping or in a coma? The fetus' right to bodily autonomy is respected when it is removed from the woman's body using whatever necessary means. Why is that? Because its' right to bodily autonomy does not grant it a claim to *her body*. "I believe that people should know the bare minimum about sex and that it should come from a purely biological viewpoint." The bare minimum is not enough. "People getting abortions know about birth control." If you don't want to teach them about birth control, you don't have that as an excuse to hide behind. "Whenever you push meaningless sex as empowerment, people will live on the streets" No, people will live on the streets when their circumstances are poor enough. Nobody is pushing sex as empowerment, it's a natural part of being human and measures should be taken to ensure people can have sex safely and responsibly. Teaching abstinence does not work, as you cannot teach humans to stop being human. "There will be a dramatic increase in sex. Peoples' minds will become dull and diluted." An increase in sex isn't a bad thing, so long as it is an increase in responsible sex. Irresponsible sex happens the most in disadvantaged communities, or communities where birth control and abortion are not readily available. "What does telling people that you can have pleasure-based sex with people accomplish?" They don't need to be told, they figure that out on their own. "Babies should not be killed." Babies are not being killed, and women can abort with impunity. "You know that the abortion procedure and that abortion are indefensible" Nope, that's a Carson problem, not a Len problem. I have no issue with abortion and view it for the positive effects it has on individuals and society as a whole. I recognize poverty as the main driving factor in rising crime rates and recognize it as the cycle it is, but you seem to have very little to say about poverty! But hey, if you really think you can choose not to improve the quality of sex education and keep it at the "bare minimum" without people figuring it out on their own in unsafe ways, why don't you use your godlike powers to change reality to fit your narrow perspective to touch up your nothing-burger of a comment a little bit? Your beliefs cause an increase in unsafe sex and poverty, mine shrink both and fix problems. You create what you hate.
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  1977. ​@Robin Ralson "You're right, I did spell that word incorrectly because I used the word suggestions in the suggestion bar on my keyboard, which sometimes tends to show false spellings" Now you've changed your story, and your credibility is gone. First it was a typo, now you've blamed it on a suggestion bar. I can tell you that when I see incorrect spelling on a suggestion bar, I think "Gee, I must have mistyped something for it to have learned that. I'll just spell it correctly this time by hand." Anyone else that cares about how they present themselves will think something similar, some might even go so far as to remove it from the dictionary, although I definitely wouldn't. I didn't have to say very much to get you to slip up; you're not nearly as smart as you think you are. But because of the way you've behaved here, it is far more likely for people to see you as deceitful than someone that made an innocent mistake. You really should have stuck with the typo story. "I knew what the spelling was and changed it in ALL the comments to you in which I have mentioned it. " I suppose you're too lazy to even do that. At the time that I'm typing this comment, I went back and grabbed a screenshot of your mistake from the thread where I first called you out for it, as well as both of your explanations for it. It also helps that you used "lisence" (sic) in the wrong context, nevermind the spelling. Anyone else would have said "reason" or "grounds", but for some reason you had to be weird about it. I hope you get the help you need sometime soon, man.
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  2154. Rawlings: Actually, they've proven a fetus DOESN'T feel pain, for it is incapable of having experiences. Yes, a fetus will writhe like a headless eel on a grill, but that headless eel, we know is also incapable of having experiences. "Some thing it's not a baby until it comes out of the womb? So a baby is born today and can be considered fully human, but 24 hours prior, it's not? It's only a fetus? " It being human and being a fetus are two different things. A fetus is not a baby unless it is born, but that has no bearing on its' humanity. "So no one HAS to go to hell" No one does to begin with, your god just likes to torture people. "God doesn't want anyone to go to hell - he gave a way out." God wants people to go to hell because he likes to torture people he doesn't like. "God says thou shall not murder - taking the life of an innocent child, is murder." Murder is strictly and without exception, the unlawful killing of one human being by another with intent. Abortion is both lawful and a human right, thus abortion is not murder. Let's not forget all those verses where God commands that we kill others, as well. "Babies in the womb do feel pain - it's a fact, look it up." Fetuses in the womb do not feel pain for they are not sentient. it's a fact, do some research. "God's word says he knits every child together in their mother's womb, and even before they were born, he knew them. " God's taking credit for the actions of humans. " Women are told it's a fetus, not a living breathing child. Lie. " Actually they're told the truth, it is a fetus. It isn't a child, it's a fetus of the genus homo sapiens. "They use abortion for birth control, what a sad state. " Well, there's a lie you've just told me. The side effects of the abortion pill are an effective deterrent. I'm sure some women try, but all give up. "No woman whose had an abortion is ever free from the thought of what could have been had she not taken the life of the child." Except most are. Every woman that is left unbullied moves on to live a healthy life, and they don't second guess themselves because they know they can just reproduce in the future, when they are willing. I don't trust your experiences as you are a liar.
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  2384. ​ @thomassvoboda4747  I guess your first step to arguing that is proving that I said all children born that might have been aborted otherwise will have a poor life! But you're not going to do that, because you can't. This argument had barely started and you already backed yourself into a corner. "While both are terrible crimes, murder is by far worse." Death is not inherently good or bad. For murder to be worse than torture, death would have to be inherently bad. But it isn't. Death can be swift and painless, whereas torture creates human suffering. The fact that your anecdote lists warriors and not innocent people that don't have that strength speaks volumes. The vast majority of people that are burning to death look forward to dying. Dying is the best part of burning to death, and burn victims very frequently fight legal battles to be allowed to die. "all of the children aborted would have had to been tortured, had they been born." No. Only the ones that I am personally responsible for, and I am the only one fit to make that judgment. That is because what happens to them will be on me. "However, I do acknowledge that torture can be severe enough for people to choose death" Therefore, you must concede that circumstances beyond literal torture, such as inescapable desolation may also be severe enough for people to choose death. People can and do choose death over it, too. We're in a depression and suicide epidemic. "At least you believe that abortion is killing a human being, or at least I think you do. " No, I do not. A fetus is not a human being, as a fetus does not attain sentience until long after birth. " I do find it interesting that you would be concerned with suicide more then murder. " Abortion isn't murder, but you're right, I do find suicide more concerning than murder. Suicide has one primary cause; our world is no longer suitable to live in. Murder typically has more complex motives and doesn't speak as loudly about quality of life for the people living in our world. If you're afraid of death more than you're afraid of suffering, then that's just you. People that have less prospects than you do typically think differently. Even religious crazies think suffering is worse than death, why do you think they like to threaten people with Hell so much? That said, if my child cannot grow up to live in better conditions than I did, I will choose to abort. I do not believe that neglecting or abandoning a child is morally acceptable. I believe abortion is the kindest option. This is what I believe, and I have the right to do what I believe is the right thing to do. If I have to fight for my autonomy like Ukraine, I will.
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