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Yea… plus honestly it’s just so un-American. Is this how we resolve problems? It’s gross. My conservative friends (truly friends) would you rather confront som

Yea… plus honestly it’s just so un-American. Is this how we resolve problems? It’s gross. My conservative friends (truly friends) would you rather confront someone in an honorable way to their face, or report someone anonymously on the Internet to the government. Which of these approaches really align with your own beliefs about resolving problems? If someone backed into your truck or something are you going to work it out like gentleman/woman or would you not talk to them and sit on your phone and report them to the police anonymously? Seriously. Face your accuser and all that.

jaldhar 5y ago
I agree with you on this specific issue but may I point out it isn’t really a new thing. For instance, every police car in my town and probably yours has a phone number you can anonymously call if you have information concerning a crime investigation. There is a number to call to anonymously report unsafe conditions on building sites. Another one lets you anonymously report unsanitary conditions in restaurants (including recently if they are not following mask policy.). And so on for illegal dumping, animal cruelty etc. The danger is that the anonymity will be used by disgruntled people to make false accusations or get revenge instead of only by civic minded citizens trying to improve society but this is a danger in all the examples above not just the abortion one.
- ericmay 5y ago
  I get what you're saying, but I do think this is specifically different. The actions you mention, such as illegal dumping are reporting harm caused to another against their will. Or in the case of animal cruelty, it's an action against a helpless creature. They are kind of like branches on the hierarchy of murder or theft. I think the unsanitary conditions is more similar to violence or misrepresentation so I don't see it as too different. The mask thing I think is a little more controversial and could be argued probably. But in all of these cases it seems that there is a dispute between an injured party and the injuring party. You'd have to argue that a fetus is an injured party and that a physician and the mother are injuring the fetus against its will. Some probably will. I won't.

jaldhar 5y ago

I agree with you on this specific issue but may I point out it isn’t really a new thing. For instance, every police car in my town and probably yours has a phone number you can anonymously call if you have information concerning a crime investigation. There is a number to call to anonymously report unsafe conditions on building sites. Another one lets you anonymously report unsanitary conditions in restaurants (including recently if they are not following mask policy.). And so on for illegal dumping, animal cruelty etc. The danger is that the anonymity will be used by disgruntled people to make false accusations or get revenge instead of only by civic minded citizens trying to improve society but this is a danger in all the examples above not just the abortion one.

ericmay 5y ago
I get what you're saying, but I do think this is specifically different. The actions you mention, such as illegal dumping are reporting harm caused to another against their will. Or in the case of animal cruelty, it's an action against a helpless creature. They are kind of like branches on the hierarchy of murder or theft. I think the unsanitary conditions is more similar to violence or misrepresentation so I don't see it as too different. The mask thing I think is a little more controversial and could be argued probably. But in all of these cases it seems that there is a dispute between an injured party and the injuring party. You'd have to argue that a fetus is an injured party and that a physician and the mother are injuring the fetus against its will. Some probably will. I won't.