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But its not a plant is it, or an animal, its a human being.
So why should they get the same raw deal, the same lack of rights?
These things you say it doesn't have, if allowed to, will develop incredibly fast.
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Following that logic, if Person A killed a woman on the verge of being pregnant (her husband would have impregnated her that very evening) then he is also morally reprehensible for the death of that unconceived fetus. This because your logic necessitates that non-actual entities be treates as actual entities. That is, in the case of our disagreement, that non-actual egos, intellects, and consciences be treated as actual egos, intellects, and consciences.
Moreover, I would like to refine what I said earlier -- existenial power is a factor in the distribution of rights, but to be more specific, it is the
flow of existential power which determines the distribution of rights -- if rights were conferred proportionately to existential power, then more self-aware smarter, ethical people would have greater rights than less self-aware, dumber, and unethical people.
As it is, democratic society has mechanisms in place which realign the flow of existential power to create an artificial equality where people of all types enjoy the same amount of rights. Fetuses are typically exempt from consideration because they contribute no existential power due to their being the mental equivalents to rocks.
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A few possible innocent human beings a year if that, and truly sad that would be, verses millions of slaughtered innocent possible babies in the west each year, mostly for the disgusting reason of convenience.
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Your thinking lacks logical cleanliness wherever it is expressed. Aren't we killing those possibly innocent human beings because it is
convenient with reference to disposing undesirable elements?
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Women and men who do this absolutely revolt me, I would throw them out of my house if they came in and said they had aborted for that reason, it would take days to get their characterless worthless gutless lazy revolting stink out of my house and nostrils.
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A person who engages in extended resentment of this type strikes me as lacking character.