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Fiat Shenanigans 🤡🌎 | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm being serious. People on the other side of the argument argue from a position where it is taken as a given that an unborn child is not yet a human and therefore has no rights, so only the rights of the mother are considered. I am not doing so. I acknowledge that the rights of the mother are valid, but argue that they do not supercede the right to life. It's a complicated issue. When you start deciding who should live and who should die, where does it stop? Where do you draw the line? As a parent myself I find euthanizing babies morally objectionable.
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noBody𓅦🧱 | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I know you’re being serious. We have divergent views, it’s fine. I think more about the edge cases where the mother’s life is in danger, or other serious complications in various aspects of both birth and pregnancy. Since i don’t do any sort of Bible checking to help me decide things, i also don’t necessarily place the same moral precursor to the debate as you do by specifying when life begins and then since it’s called life you have this binary choice in perspective where whether the right to choose outweighs the right to life in general. I also believe that banning things is authoritarian, and only makes the thing being “banned” more dangerous. Like you said though, it’s not a simple situation so i wouldn’t expect many people to align even if, say, they both understand that Bitcoin is the best monetary system in the known universe, destined to absorb roughly the entire monetary premium of everything

I was gonna say this is why i’m probably not what you’d call a libertarian, but realized we’re talking about banning something, so i’m just confused. This is why i prefer to identify as retarded primarily, i guess. Shit’s too complicated for me. Abortion debates are just noise. Gonna hit Post anyway 🤣