Human life has no intrinsic value.

.You don't believe every sperm is a person, and neither do I.

However when conception has happened, and a human being is developing (meaning its going to be like you and me), that's totally different.

As I said: deeming that future person as "inhuman" because people believe somehow that "doesn't look like a baby yet = not human" is just a cop-out.

Okay.

You still have to justify how that's of any consequence.

This is why Serious can't have nice things.

The thing is, the cynical, bitter cunts are usually right.

That's way too broad a range.

Yeah, it's understandable how people are cynical and bitter, but that's a result. It's a descriptive, not pre-scriptive term. People shouldn't strive to be bitter or cynical.

And there's a massive gulf between being a social critic, as most of us are in some capacity, and an actual political, philosophical authority on the matter.

1) so killing someone is ok now?

2) if you were the one being aborted, would you still support abortion? Support the fact that you never get a chance to live or breathe, simply because of somebody's preference?

1) That's not the claim I was making. I'm saying it isn't innately, inherently, in-and-of-itself immoral to end another human life.

2) If I was the one being aborted? That really is a non-question. I wouldn't have any experience or intellectual capacity to know about what I was missing out on. It's virtually the same as complaining about the fact that many potential persons have been lost because a guy wanks into a sock.

What a shame none of them will ever be able to live or breathe.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on September 14, 2014, 11:42:50 AM

Damn, Fixer was fucking awesome.

Supers were tougher than Droidikas though, which was a fucking bitch. I could feel my anxiety rising whenever those fuckers'd come out.

I can see it now. Do you remember  the ones that had only rocket arms? Walking fucking tanks those fuckers were.

Oh God, those fucking spider droids, though.

They were easily the worst.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on September 14, 2014, 11:32:42 AM

Oh God, just all of the Kashyyyk missions.

Fighting alongside Wookiees? Who wouldn't love it.

But that fucking bridge though. Holy shit that was a crazy run wasn't it?

Goddamn, is that the one where you have to blow it up but the bombs are duds or something like that?

Fuck, I need to play it again; it's been years. Good job I have it on steam ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Oh God, just all of the Kashyyyk missions.

Fighting alongside Wookiees? Who wouldn't love it.

And no, animals are not comparable to a human life.

I'd have to disagree there, to some extent.

The great apes, particularly chimpanzees, deserve the right of personhood.

Perhaps dolphins too.

What do?

Unless the woman was raped or her life is in danger, all other abortions should be illegal.

Doesn't work.

I think it was Romania that tried it, but essentially it resulted in higher population growth and high rates of death among women. Pregnant women will find a way to have an abortion if they want one, and illegalising it makes it very, very dangerous.

Yeah, the group that makes up 90% of the lawmakers is being oppressed.

Shut the fuck up, dad.

Lol, that's nothing. A nokia doesn't even need a case.

Fuck, the last time somebody dropped a nokia from 1,300 foot all the dinosaurs died.

That's probably the only spider I wouldn't immediately kill when I saw it.

Okay, serious matter now: opinions on math? As it's an almost completely deductive subject a lot of people are turned off by it, but I'm curious to see how someone with your adeptness for philosophizing reacts to it.

I'm slightly contemptuous of it, to be frank. I'm much more interested in empirics, and I think maths is the sort of reasoning which can lead people to embrace rationalism or, perhaps, dualism instead of empiricism and monism. I do recognise its importance in understanding, well, anything really.