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It's clear to you but that's still a value judgement. It's not as clear if you discount female autonomy.
by breezybottom 5mo ago
It's clear to you but that's still a value judgement. It's not as clear if you discount female autonomy.
- svnt 5mo agoI take your meaning but I don't agree it is only a value judgement. It is also an evolutionary and social force.
- ascorbic 5mo agoThe mother and baby are more likely to die. I don't think wanting to prevent that is a value judgement.
- stinkbeetle 5mo agoNo of course it isn't nobody suggested it was. The value judgement is saying the changes you want are worth doing because they might reduce it. Social and personal choices are weighed all the time that include risks to lives, suggesting something that might reduce risk does not end the debate. We would generally want to prevent people dying in horrible aviation disasters too, we could do that by ceasing non essential air travel.
- fn-mote 5mo ago> We would generally want to prevent people dying in horrible aviation disasters too, we could do that by ceasing non essential air travel. Equating educating girls to an aviation disaster has to be a new low. This inflammatory comparison does nothing to improve the level of civil dialog on HN.
- true_religion 5mo agoArgument by absurdity is a well known and to some well regarded rhetorical technique. It makes you at least agree that there is a line somewhere, and then you can go on to decide where to draw it.
- stinkbeetle 5mo ago> Equating educating girls to an aviation disaster To be clear, that is an unfounded accusation that you just now fabricated. > This inflammatory comparison does nothing to improve the level of civil dialog on HN. Your disgusting lies and fake pearl clutching are the problem here.
- breezybottom 5mo agoDeath being bad is a value judgement.
- Ar-Curunir 5mo agoIf the value that the “other side” is espousing is that “it’s okay for girls to die giving birth”, well, we can safely discount that as a valid position to hold in modern society. Some things are just absolutely bad.
- chlorodose 5mo agoI believe nothing is *absolutely bad* in modern society. For example, the best way to stop pregnancy-related deaths is to forcely termination any high-risk pregnancy regardless of the pregnant woman's own wishes. But seems no one would agree.
- fn-mote 5mo agoKarma 1 account posting very inflammatory content?