I was raised Catholic, and The Meaning of Life is an essential criticism of the flawed reasoning endemic to the prohibition against contraception. Sperm shouldn’t be wasted because it’s sacred... most of the rhetoric about family values (sanctity of marital sex), as they relate to contraception, flow from that idiotic…

I didn’t use the term “human life”. Part of my argument is that “life” is a red herring introduced as a rhetorical place-holder for the religious concept of the soul. The reality is that People have rights in law, not cells that each individually could be described as both “alive” and “human”.

The hypothetical I drew…

So... in your world view... if I sincerely believed that plucking the eyes from newborns is a moral good (you can’t see it, but their souls only enter their bodies when the eyes are removed!!!!)... you would just concede the argument because “it’s a matter of morality”?!

What ever makes you feel better! :D

have ZERO FUCKING BUSINESS telling any woman what they should and shouldn’t do with their body and their future.

Yes, and the reasons for that (anti-contraception) varies from organization to organization. The Catholics, for example, think sperm are, in some sense, people too. It’s stupid. It’s really really stupid (and has been directly feeding the AIDS epidemic in Africa for generations), but it’s objectively a belief that…

You just did most of the work by pointing at the fact that it’s an unfalsifiable and unprovable notion... you simply complete the victory by talking about what we do know (that personhood has something to do with brain development rather than cardiovascular development, etc).

“they”

I have no doubt that people have all sorts of motivations, many of which overlap, but I don’t find those types of generalizations persuasive.

I’m certainly suspicious of people all of the time, but until an individual tips their hand I take them at their word. I’m reluctant to engage in pro-active mind-reading.

I’m certainly suspicious of people all of the time, but until an individual tips their hand I take them at their word. I’m reluctant to engage in pro-active mind-reading.

Given that these people are often also against abortions when the pregnancy is endangering the woman’s life, it’s obvious that they value the life of the fetus *higher* than the woman’s life.

I don’t know why people feel the need to mischaracterize the argument. They think they are defending people, because they think fetuses are people. They think the fetus has at least as much right to live as the mother does.

They have a bad argument. Engage with it. You’ll win every time.

It looks smaller, but it doesn’t look “much” smaller.

It’s... so... incredibly complicated. If inaction is a choice with moral weight (and it is) how ugly is America’s history of inaction?!

Another interesting variable, that many don’t realize, is that Among Us was pretty much a failure until a handful (then a torrent) of streamers showed that the audience could bring the fun.

Most humans are hypocrites. News at 11.

It’s their game... their “beta”... their NDA, which people are choosing to sign (in exchange for something they want to test).

Your point seems misguided, in this case. The title is part of the joke.

Yeah... like... even if they turn up irrefutable evidence that this was some sort of staged insurance scam I would expect the cop to still face some sort of serious repercussion for not stopping to render aid. This is bonkers.