Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:19 am
Really? Most people do care; they have good instincts. It's just that the policies aren't in place for the world to be as good as it can be.
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
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The New California Republic wrote:Sundiata wrote:Really? Most people do care; they have good instincts. It's just that the policies aren't in place for the world to be as good as it can be.
Sorry, most people don't give a shit about ensuring that the process from fertilisation to birth has a 100% rate of success, or anywhere near close to that.
Totalitarian Missouri wrote:The New California Republic wrote:There are only extremely narrow circumstances in which someone's bodily sovereignty can be overridden, usually in cases of serious crime or someone not being compos mentis to the extent of being a danger to themselves or other people, and even in those situations there are extremely tight safeguards regarding how and when it can be used. What you are proposing goes far beyond that.
Well Certainly i want more than that. I personally don't believe most people know whats best for themselves. If they did you wouldnt have Sadists, masochists, Druggies, Political Parties, the whole 9 yards and etc., feel? That's just my Opinion, just as you have your own.
Spirit of Hope wrote:Elwher wrote:
A similar reason was used to justify slavery in the past - An African is not a person and therefore has no right to freedom (see the Dred Scot decision for a version of this). Unless we agree on a definition of personhood, this argument just shifts the question.
We have a definition of a living person, it uses brain activity. Failing to meet this is called being brain dead and makes someone legally dead. Fetuses don't have the required brain activity until they hit about 20 weeks of development.
The New California Republic wrote:Elwher wrote:
Not totally without precedent - At the present time, a tenant can demand that a landlord share his property with them without compensation and a person can demand treatment at a hospital under the same circumstances and refusal of either is illegal; so demanding that a person share their body is just another step on the way.
A monstrous step at that...
Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:Do I need to pull out my Malthus to show why 100% successful birthrate per insemination is a gigantically shittastic idea?
Godular wrote:Neutraligon wrote:I mean this is the person that would kill all of humanity instead of hitting a button to kill the one. This is the person that would sterilize a woman because she happens to have an ectopic pregnancy.
If anyone ever exemplified the phrase 'The road to Hell is paved with good intentions' more, I would color myself every conceivable color of shocked.
Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:Do I need to pull out my Malthus to show why 100% successful birthrate per insemination is a gigantically shittastic idea?
Totalitarian Missouri wrote:The Caleshan Valkyrie wrote:
Good for you. You’re wrong.
No, I am simply applying consistent logic and turning established positions supported by the purportedly pro-life parties in our political arena against them. You however, base your position on little else, O purge purveying ‘killin chillun be wrong’ person.
I’m sure in your headcanon that makes sense. But in reality it does not. In either case, it is the height of foolishness to claim that a purported fallacy employed by another entitles you to make a fallacy for your own purposes.
This entire Conversation is an appeal to Emotion and if you cant see that, your Blind.
Katganistan wrote:Spirit of Hope wrote:
We have a definition of a living person, it uses brain activity. Failing to meet this is called being brain dead and makes someone legally dead. Fetuses don't have the required brain activity until they hit about 20 weeks of development.
People need to be born and alive.
Fetuses are not born.
That literally is what the laws state. You cannot be a person until born.
Under that definition, African slaves were born, and alive, and thus should have been classified as people under the current definition of personhood.
Elwher wrote:Katganistan wrote:People need to be born and alive.
Fetuses are not born.
That literally is what the laws state. You cannot be a person until born.
Under that definition, African slaves were born, and alive, and thus should have been classified as people under the current definition of personhood.
But under the laws and definitions in place at that time, no they were not. Laws can and do change, so do definitions.
Elwher wrote:Spirit of Hope wrote:
I don't think anyone is arguing that laws don't change, because obviously they do. I'm not sure what your point here is.
Many people in earlier times argued that, under the laws and definitions of that time, Africans were not people and therefore did not have any rights.
Many people today argue that, under the laws and definitions of this time, fetuses are not people and therefore do not have any rights.
There is a similarity to the arguments, that was the point I was originally making.
Elwher wrote:Spirit of Hope wrote:
I don't think anyone is arguing that laws don't change, because obviously they do. I'm not sure what your point here is.
Many people in earlier times argued that, under the laws and definitions of that time, Africans were not people and therefore did not have any rights.
Many people today argue that, under the laws and definitions of this time, fetuses are not people and therefore do not have any rights.
There is a similarity to the arguments, that was the point I was originally making.
Elwher wrote:Spirit of Hope wrote:
I don't think anyone is arguing that laws don't change, because obviously they do. I'm not sure what your point here is.
Many people in earlier times argued that, under the laws and definitions of that time, Africans were not people and therefore did not have any rights.
Many people today argue that, under the laws and definitions of this time, fetuses are not people and therefore do not have any rights.
There is a similarity to the arguments, that was the point I was originally making.
Elwher wrote:Spirit of Hope wrote:
I don't think anyone is arguing that laws don't change, because obviously they do. I'm not sure what your point here is.
Many people in earlier times argued that, under the laws and definitions of that time, Africans were not people and therefore did not have any rights.
Many people today argue that, under the laws and definitions of this time, fetuses are not people and therefore do not have any rights.
There is a similarity to the arguments, that was the point I was originally making.
Godular wrote:Elwher wrote:
Many people in earlier times argued that, under the laws and definitions of that time, Africans were not people and therefore did not have any rights.
Many people today argue that, under the laws and definitions of this time, fetuses are not people and therefore do not have any rights.
There is a similarity to the arguments, that was the point I was originally making.
This is rather specifically why I avoid using personhood or the lack thereof as a factor in my argument. I prefer to focus on the fact that even if the fetus WERE considered a person, it still wouldn't have the right to use another person's body without their consent.
Godular wrote:
This is rather specifically why I avoid using personhood or the lack thereof as a factor in my argument. I prefer to focus on the fact that even if the fetus WERE considered a person,it still wouldn't have the right to use another person's body without their consent.
Page wrote:Elwher wrote:
Many people in earlier times argued that, under the laws and definitions of that time, Africans were not people and therefore did not have any rights.
Many people today argue that, under the laws and definitions of this time, fetuses are not people and therefore do not have any rights.
There is a similarity to the arguments, that was the point I was originally making.
Hell, under the law today, you can get locked in a cage for eating a mushroom to expand your consciousness but you're 100% allowed to mutilate the genitals of an unconsenting baby boy while he is wide awake and in tremendous pain.
Legality has no place in debates over ethics, however much we rationalize and glorify the modern state, we are still under the capricious rule of warlords, just with lots of extra steps these days.
Salus Maior wrote:Godular wrote:
This is rather specifically why I avoid using personhood or the lack thereof as a factor in my argument. I prefer to focus on the fact that even if the fetus WERE considered a person,it still wouldn't have the right to use another person's body without their consent.
But does that earn them the death penalty? When they didn't and don't have a choice in the matter?