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What isn't subject to definition creep? Murder now, for some, includes abortion. Censorship now includes, for some, private companies removing bad actors from
by Frondo 8y ago
What isn't subject to definition creep?
Murder now, for some, includes abortion.
Censorship now includes, for some, private companies removing bad actors from their private systems.
Come on, that's lazy to dismiss it that way when society literally changes all the time.
- mamon 8y agoOfftopic, but regarding abortion: Whether or not abortion is a murder is not about definition of "murder" it is about definition of "human being". There's no doubt that abortion involves killing a living creature, the whole pro-choice vs pro-life debate is basically about one simple question: "is fetus a human being?". If you answer that with "yes", then every abortion becomes a murder, plain and simple. This also explains why there will never be a compromise between two crowds: it is logically impossible to compromise on yes/no questions.
- tomatocracy 8y agoIsn’t the compromise position essentially ‘after X weeks’, where the value of X is highly contested? (And on the binary yes/no question there’s nuances too which get debated eg if continuing the pregnancy would be a significant threat to the mother’s life)
- Frondo 8y agoA fetus isn't a living thing. It has the potential to become a living thing, but so do a lot of things that aren't living.