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> I've yet to meet another person who is intentionally ambivalent on the issue I can see why circumstances make you feel that there's a special something about

> I've yet to meet another person who is intentionally ambivalent on the issue I can see why circumstances make you feel that there's a special something about a fertilized egg, but we're really all in the same situation - but for a tiny difference someone else would have been born. If your grandmother had a weapon she might have been able to prevent being raped, which would have been a positive spin on the same result as an abortion - you not being born. > I'm neither pro-choice nor pro-life. I've chosen to remain neutral on the issue Neutral is pro-choice. No law. To justify a law, present a reason and a rationale. Otherwise why pass it, right? > But to suggest that this issue is one where science and logic makes one position definitively correct and the other incorrect is wrong. It is an issue of morality and philosophical beliefs and, as such, science cannot decide it any more so than religion can. That's a fundamental misunderstanding of what science is. There's no reason you can't apply science to religion. If there were gods, and they had an impact on us, it'd be scientists who noticed it and performed experiments to quantify it. We'd even be doing cohort studies to see if the gods disapproved of being monitored, etc.

curun1r 10y ago
I know you're trolling, but... > I can see why circumstances make you feel that there's a special something about a fertilized egg This is being intentionally dismissive. The fact is a fertilized egg inside a woman has, for centuries, resulted in a baby being born without the woman being able to do anything about it. Being able to safely terminate a pregnancy is a relatively new development. The fact that my grandmother had an abortion and, because of the law at the time and the circumstances surrounding it, the procedure didn't succeed in terminating the pregnancy is very different from playing the what-if game. > Neutral is pro-choice. No law. No, neutral is letting others determine the law without interjecting my opinion. > That's a fundamental misunderstanding of what science is. There's no reason you can't apply science to religion. I never said you couldn't. I only said that both science and religion can both be the basis for political positions. It was you who made the connection of science being rational and religion being irrational. I was merely pointing out that neither rational nor irrational bases can inform this issue. A position on this issue is strictly based on morality and philosophy. This contrasts starkly with other issues like climate change or tax policy where math and science can inform a more correct position. Okay...I'm done feeding the troll :-)
- EdHominem 10y ago
  > This is being intentionally dismissive. Not at all. > The fact that ... is very different from playing the what-if game. I was trying to speak broadly so as not to speak for you. How would you put it? > No, neutral is letting others determine the law without interjecting my opinion. For a pure observer, maybe. For a taxpayer, not so much. > It was you who made the connection of science being rational and religion being irrational. Yup. > I was merely pointing out that neither rational nor irrational bases can inform this issue. A position on this issue is strictly based on morality and philosophy. Assuming you feel that a human should not be killed (without reason anyways) you can formally extend that reasoning to a baby, a fetus, and so forth. At some point, the initial reasoning may stop applying. Congrats, you've now derived an opinion on abortion. You may feel that morality has a religious core, but that's a god of the cracks type thing. You can squish that bit away and analyze the rules systematically using the tools of logic. > This contrasts starkly with other issues like climate change or tax policy where math and science can inform a more correct position. There shouldn't be any contrast. What's the problem with runaway climate change? The suffering and death that it will cause. But that's the same ethical framework you'd use to analyze abortion. And it leads the same place - your basic value for the lives of others, which you may call religious or not.

curun1r 10y ago

I know you're trolling, but... > I can see why circumstances make you feel that there's a special something about a fertilized egg This is being intentionally dismissive. The fact is a fertilized egg inside a woman has, for centuries, resulted in a baby being born without the woman being able to do anything about it. Being able to safely terminate a pregnancy is a relatively new development. The fact that my grandmother had an abortion and, because of the law at the time and the circumstances surrounding it, the procedure didn't succeed in terminating the pregnancy is very different from playing the what-if game. > Neutral is pro-choice. No law. No, neutral is letting others determine the law without interjecting my opinion. > That's a fundamental misunderstanding of what science is. There's no reason you can't apply science to religion. I never said you couldn't. I only said that both science and religion can both be the basis for political positions. It was you who made the connection of science being rational and religion being irrational. I was merely pointing out that neither rational nor irrational bases can inform this issue. A position on this issue is strictly based on morality and philosophy. This contrasts starkly with other issues like climate change or tax policy where math and science can inform a more correct position. Okay...I'm done feeding the troll :-)

EdHominem 10y ago
> This is being intentionally dismissive. Not at all. > The fact that ... is very different from playing the what-if game. I was trying to speak broadly so as not to speak for you. How would you put it? > No, neutral is letting others determine the law without interjecting my opinion. For a pure observer, maybe. For a taxpayer, not so much. > It was you who made the connection of science being rational and religion being irrational. Yup. > I was merely pointing out that neither rational nor irrational bases can inform this issue. A position on this issue is strictly based on morality and philosophy. Assuming you feel that a human should not be killed (without reason anyways) you can formally extend that reasoning to a baby, a fetus, and so forth. At some point, the initial reasoning may stop applying. Congrats, you've now derived an opinion on abortion. You may feel that morality has a religious core, but that's a god of the cracks type thing. You can squish that bit away and analyze the rules systematically using the tools of logic. > This contrasts starkly with other issues like climate change or tax policy where math and science can inform a more correct position. There shouldn't be any contrast. What's the problem with runaway climate change? The suffering and death that it will cause. But that's the same ethical framework you'd use to analyze abortion. And it leads the same place - your basic value for the lives of others, which you may call religious or not.