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That’s not so much old fashioned as willfully ignorant of how humans have been comporting themselves for all of recorded history. It isn’t really an opinion as
by Semirhage 8y ago
That’s not so much old fashioned as willfully ignorant of how humans have been comporting themselves for all of recorded history. It isn’t really an opinion as much as a moral and intellectual dodge, sort of like prohibitionists preaching abstinence. I’ve also noticed that so many people lose interest in the life of child the instant it leaves the birth canal. People who thinks it’s a moral imperative to protect s fetus, don’t see, to take similar hard lines on protecting the welfare of children in general. The position seems to hold only so long as someone else is bearing the consequences.
These same people are often against paying a cent in taxes for healthcare, education, food, housing. Those same people don’t even seem to bemoan genocides in places like Rwanda or Sudan, or the Congo until long after they end. To me, it reeks of screwy priorities, and control.
- rabboRubble 8y agoI know. I find it intolerable to be lectured by the anti-abortion crowd who seem completely okay with the idea of US insurance plans not including pregnancy coverage automatically. Why should men be forced to pay for something they don't use they say. We will be fighting to keep the bare minimum we gained with the ACA and it will likely be a losing battle as with so many other things involving women's reproductive health.
- apta 8y agoI'm neither republican or democrat, and I find the entire two party system quite bizarre to say the least. That being said, there is no reason to blindly follow either, one can be anti-abortion yet pro health care, education, and so on. Moving the goal posts so to say is not an argument.
- apta 8y agoThe vast majority of your post is a an association fallacy. Believe it or not, people can be anti-abortion generally, yet are interested in protected the welfare of children, and pro paying taxes for healthcare and education and housing, etc. Your post provided no argument whatsoever.
- Semirhage 8y agoMaybe that’s because it wasn’t an argument, or framed as one? “I’ve noticed” and “people often” struck you as an exercise in formal logic? The only part that represented an argument was the assertion of your willful ignorance of human nature and history, which ironically you ignored.