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> How am I over simplifying? You seem to be assuming that your perspective on the issue is the only correct one, and therefore no one can legitimately think di
by tablespoon 4y ago
> How am I over simplifying?
You seem to be assuming that your perspective on the issue is the only correct one, and therefore no one can legitimately think differently. In cases like this, that's only tenable by straw-manning or totally ignoring alternate perspectives.
Someone can start with different basic assumptions, and proceed to arrive at a totally different yet self-consistent perspective than yours. With the abortion debate, one important different assumption is if fetuses humanized or dehumanized.
I think I pretty frequently see errors in understanding that result from people taking their side's assumptions, and then trying to derive the other side's positions from that false starting point.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI know what the other side’s assumptions are, I even mentioned as such in my comment. They can keep their assumptions to themselves, and use them to make decisions about their life. But I do not see why I should care. If someone’s assumptions lead to harm for my non fetus daughter, wife, sister, or any woman, then that is all that is needed to for me to write off their point of view.
- tablespoon 4y ago> I know what the other side’s assumptions are, I even mentioned as such in my comment. They can keep their assumptions to themselves, and use them to make decisions about their life. You also denied that they were self-consistent, which is what I (and possibly the others) were responding to. And even if you know what their different assumptions are, you don't seem to actually be doing anything with that information, which isn't that different from not knowing in the first place.