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MAGA is only socially conservative when it comes to how they believe other people should behave. When it comes to alcohol, tobacco, pot (at least here in OK), gambling, sex outside of marriage, pornography, divorce and ignoring the Sabbath a large majority of MAGA/evangelicals are equal opportunists.
One of the more embarrassing threads in my time at orange power.
A discussion on the morality and legality of abortion almost never goes civil. That’s expected. But this one is for the birds.
So much hatred. For each other. So divided. Not sure embarrassing is the word. Disappointing? Sad? Disconcerting?
Mostly college educated professionals in here and yet, I feel like a dumb ass having read through it all. That’s on me, should’ve known better but it’s hard not to read into this after so many years getting know the online personalities.
I’m frightened for a lot of you and myself and my family. Yup. That’s the word. This thread is extremely frightening. If this is what it’s like in this small community. We are screwed as a nation.
A discussion on the morality and legality of abortion almost never goes civil. That’s expected. But this one is for the birds.
So much hatred. For each other. So divided. Not sure embarrassing is the word. Disappointing? Sad? Disconcerting?
Mostly college educated professionals in here and yet, I feel like a dumb ass having read through it all. That’s on me, should’ve known better but it’s hard not to read into this after so many years getting know the online personalities.
I’m frightened for a lot of you and myself and my family. Yup. That’s the word. This thread is extremely frightening. If this is what it’s like in this small community. We are screwed as a nation.
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Yep, many feel that way. I don’t. It is used as a weapon in the debate even though we all think about life in many different ways and give certain life far more importance than others. If we really felt “life” was the fundamental question there would never be a kid starving to death on a patch of dusty ground in Africa while we gluttonously overeat and people walk by him taking photos. Nobody disagrees that the African kid is a life. But, him being "life" isn’t the fundamental question, although one side of this debate pretends it is while still not protecting him. If at some point human civilization actually made protecting all life under any circumstances the rule then I would rethink my position. But, as we are and have always been, we have completely different levels of concern for varying levels of "life." And, that includes the creator who extinguishes life at this early stage in massive quantities that are orders of magnitude higher than any other human life stage. Often before any other being even knows it existed it is extinguished. There is nothing else like that in our existence. I've seen too many teens die and seen the deep anguish in the face of the mother. I've seen far, far more embryos and early-stage fetuses die and have seen many sad mothers from that too. I can tell you it simply is not the same. It is not the same for me when I have to tell them. Their reaction is not the same. Life doesn't alway equal life in reality only in fantasy. Trying to equate an embryo to a teenager by exalting the word "life" is simply disingenuous to how we all really live.
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why does that matter so much to you what they respond? I'll throw my 2 cents, at conception and through many weeks they are a 'potentially a life'.. what bothers me is people who are pro-life only "care" about unborn lives, they don't care about that life after birth, they don't care about immigrant lives, they don't care about starving, abused, molested lives, they only "care" about the unborn!
“It is commonly said,” the scientists Frances Westall and André Brack wrote in 2018, “that there are as many definitions of life as there are people trying to define it.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-life-its-vast-diversity-defies-easy-definition-20210309/
The reason anti-abortion people suddenly care about it is that defining it adds credence to their claims. I have no argument against someone saying that a life begins with the joining of the egg and the sperm because that creates a full set of new DNA. Hey, that is a response and a definition. I have no problem with someone saying that life begins with the move from the penis to the vagina of sperm because life reacts to stimuli and attempts to self-replicate which a sperm trying to find an egg meets. I have no problem with someone defining life as birth because that is the first point that the organism is on its own. All of those are examples of the complex and nearly impossible ways that we define life. I have no problem with some people feeling a virus is a life and others feeling it is not.
People who are against abortion are obviously going to use the first definition because it best fits their needs. You have asked me multiple times. Why would you give a crap what definition some random person on the internet "believes?" I believe it depends on the definition used. I don't waste time trying to think I can define better than others.
We're having a discussion and you're arguing against my points, so I'm not just "randomly" asking you to define it. If the pro-choice position is so fragile that it doesn't withstand a mere definition of when life begins its pretty weak.
To be honest, I can entertain a discussion with those that don't see an issue with abortion early in a pregnancy because it isn't life yet. It's a thought provoking idea. However, once it's a viable human I have real trouble drawing a line between a 40 week old in the womb and 1 day later nursing in the mother's arms. Polling shows that most people feel the same way. There's a reasonable middle ground that can be established at the state level but it requires thoughtful discussion.
To be honest, I can entertain a discussion with those that don't see an issue with abortion early in a pregnancy because it isn't life yet. It's a thought provoking idea. However, once it's a viable human I have real trouble drawing a line between a 40 week old in the womb and 1 day later nursing in the mother's arms. Polling shows that most people feel the same way. There's a reasonable middle ground that can be established at the state level but it requires thoughtful discussion.
Polling numbers show most Americans support the right to an abortion in the first term and the support dwindles sharply from there. So I would guess that over time thats where it will trend. Now that this is an issue decided at the state level, I would guess/hope it'll get more serious discussion instead of how it's been for all of my life, but we'll see I guess.
And I have been a strong advocate of reasonable middle ground for a long time around here but do not base that on a desire to define life. I think you are putting too much effort into defining.
We should do what seems most reasonable to most people. And, that by the polls is early abortion is allowed and later-term abortion disallowed except for very rare circumstances. This is generally how it is done in the parts of the world with the lowest abortion rates. That should be what we are trying to achieve.
Defining life at conception and using that definition to exclude all abortion is extreme. Defining life at birth and using that definition to allow abortion until birth is extreme.
We should do what seems most reasonable to most people. And, that by the polls is early abortion is allowed and later-term abortion disallowed except for very rare circumstances. This is generally how it is done in the parts of the world with the lowest abortion rates. That should be what we are trying to achieve.
Defining life at conception and using that definition to exclude all abortion is extreme. Defining life at birth and using that definition to allow abortion until birth is extreme.
