Kelly of the Phoenix
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Probably, 'cause I'd be from that culture?If you lived in one of those cultures, would you be this blase' about a parent killing his or her...oh...eight year old?
We still have plenty of people who see nothing unethical for what Abraham almost did to his kid, after all.
There's a big difference between being a jerk and calling a slave a non-person (though that didn't stop Massah from sleeping with them!) to be a jerk and not calling an embryo a person because it lacks any necessary anatomy to be a fully realized self/sentient being.Black people weren't considered persons for most of our history.
Both a human and a dog can be persons, but only someone made of human DNA can be a member of our species.distinguishing human beings from persons. I don't believe in that sort of distinction.
Age isn't the issue. The presence of anatomy required for certain concepts is the issue. A fetus without a brain is a meat sack that will cease functioning shortly after birth if it even makes it that far.I don't consider your opinion, based on age, any more objective or moral.
If we want to talk about "objectivity", then a familiarity with basic biological facts would be nice.
Your slave will have the same anatomy for personhood as their master. Good luck finding that anatomy in a zygote.
Why would you call out the winner before the race has been completed? Is an acorn an oak tree? A race judge willing to call a race before its completion would be hung out to dry for fixing the outcome.Is it OK to kill the winner of a race because he hasn't crossed the finish line 'yet?"
I mean, if we take the Word of God into account ....Is it OK to kill a two year old because she can't pass the California bar exam 'yet?"
Have you noticed you tend to ignore biology? You aren't the only one. You keep choosing things completely unrelated to the function of the human body for your analogies.
Is it ok to kill a 2 year old because they'll suffer immensely from a failing biological system? Yes. I'm fine with death with dignity. I've seen far too many people suffer because some people apparently think that wishing someone alive will make things better.
Masters feared educating their slaves. That tells me they knew they were people all along and just wanted to be dicks about it.If it did, it would have been moral for people to call slaves 2/3 of a person.
Even if you take the racist 19th century science into account, it's still obvious they had to mangle biological fact to come up with their hypocrisy. These are the kinds of people who were measuring bumps on the head and noses and mouths and arms and legs to determine genetic superiority. Innocent non-slave people were institutionalized for the most ludicrous of reasons. You like blue instead of red? Off to the snake pit you go! You can't POSSIBLY be human.
It's not the only reason for sex, though. That's what men told women so they wouldn't have sex with other men so men would have freedom to have sex with other women. And probably sheep.that is, I think that whenever a woman has consensual sex, she is giving permission for that fetus to grow in her body if doing so isn't going to kill her or permanently harm her, because she knew that pregnancy is not only a possible result of sex, it's what sex is FOR
There are animals with barbed penises. There's no way that's comfortable, let alone enjoyable.Everything that makes sex fun is to make sure that people engage in it.
No wonder some females eat their mates.
We women have a much better shot at reproducing without males than you have without females. People have sex without getting pregnant and people can get pregnant without having sex.It's the whole point of the exercise, no matter what other benefits sex might have.
Please be kind and spay or neuter your lovers.IF, again IMO, they know already that they WILL choose abortion should they become pregnant, then they shouldn't have sex.
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As I've noted elsewhere, my only experience with the concept of parenthood is that it is incredibly selfish. Living a life knowing that you were only expected to be someone's free labor or emotional crutch is not a life I wish to promote.I find that to be irresponsible selfishness at its highest level, frankly.
Some people should never reproduce. I don't intend to. I want my family tree to die out with me. I will rip my uterus out of my body with my own bare hands to avoid it. It is cruel to bring life into this world with little thought other than a quickie or with the expressed ... to their faces ... purpose of condemning them to a life of abuse.
To quote my mother: "My happiness is the only thing that matters."
To quote my father before he became my father: "I don't want kids."
I mean, sorry to keep on and on about this, but I've been berated, beaten, creeped out sexually, forced to clean a house I didn't live in on weekend visitation, etc. I only understand there is such a thing as love from an academic perspective. I've never experienced it. The people in foster homes and orphanages don't experience it. They all grow up knowing they've been tossed aside. And that's if the foster parents allow them to grow up and don't bury them in snow after beating them to a pulp for not memorizing bible verses.
"Faith, Hope & Love" are for the privileged.