Something that i find prettyd disgusting these days is how certain people put their political ideologies / viewpoints over human lives, for example, celebrating the russian invasion of ukraine because it is “a blow against US / NATO imperialism” completely ignoring all the warcrimes, the deaths, and the suffering generated by that war, the same happening with the palestinian genocide because “Israel is the only working democracy on the middle east”, acting like their ideoligies are going to bring back to life all the dead people somehow

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    8 months ago

    Born - come into existence as a result of birth. So check mate fundamentalist. Not born, not existent. But sure if you want to argue on a more sane level - than how the fuck is a blastula the same as a whole developed human?

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      8 months ago

      You are also existing in the womb… You don’t just magically pop out of thin air 💀

      A one month old baby isn’t a whole developed human either. Doesn’t mean we should kill it. I don’t understand why we are drawing a line at all on when it’s okay to kill somebody. It’s never okay.

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        8 months ago

        It’s never okay.

        Definitely ok when someone is trying to kill you. But the whole point is that the concept of killing does not really applies well to a blastula to beginn with.

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          8 months ago

          I think abortion is fine if the mother might die from giving birth.

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            8 months ago

            So now it’s somehow ok and necessary to draw a line. So you draw the line when the life of mother is in danger - so you are just as pro baby murder as everyone else, how the tables have turned.

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              8 months ago

              If the mother’s life is in danger than both her and the baby would die? But this situation is extraordinarily rare.

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                8 months ago

                That does not really change that you, like everyone else draw somewhere a line where it is ok to kill. Also you chose a point from where on you differentiate between just cells and a human being. It just happens that you chose implantation as this threshold, while at the same time you use things like heartbeat, pain and human appearance as your measures. And that does not add up.

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                  8 months ago

                  But if the foetus would die anyway, why would it be wrong to spare the mother’s life? I think overall we shouldn’t interfere with the process once fertilisation has happened.

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                    8 months ago

                    why would it be wrong to spare the mother’s life?

                    Why do you ask me? I personally believe that abortion is such unique, intimate and personal decisions that society does not have a right to interfere with and should be decided by the mother with help of medical and psychological professionals (if needed). You are the one who said that killing is always wrong and we don’t even need to draw any line when it would be ok.

                    I think overall we shouldn’t interfere with the process once fertilisation has happened.

                    You are free to do so if you happen to get pregnant one day.