I don't really have a counter argument that I would like to make, because it's not and never was my goal to convince you that your opinion was wrong I only intended to critique the way it was made.
However, I am curious where you would personally draw the line on a human infant becoming sentient. This not intended as a trap or an argument- as a conflicted person, your certainty is interesting.
Now I want a fiber optic keyboard cleaning brush
You seem unimagitive and boring: 0/10, would not watch any TV show you write
I love the thought that instead of pooping in the indestructible hut, then going out in sorties, throwing poop on its food, you decide to straight up pop a squat over the only food source while locked in an area with a t rex. You are a very bold person, your bravery has my respect, if not your intelligence
Imagine being able to talk to oysters only to find out that oysters can't talk back
Somehow I doubt oysters have anything interesting to say
Frankly it annoyed me. Some things should be sacred
Because as I read this, you are setting up the argument to be:
Pro choice believes in protecting individual autonomy, as opposed to Pro life, which believes in telling people what to do, because of insert any number of reasons here
This is pretty true of a lot of the pro life apologists and political campaigners, but I feel is a pretty ineffectual argument against the people who truely believe this as an ideology.
The people that truely believe in pro life genuinely don't see a difference in values about protecting individual autonomy- they believe that's what they are doing by banning both murder and abortion (something that they don't differentiate between)
Plenty of these would agree with you that this execution was in fact a murder.
Except tumors don't have the potential to grow into sentient animals, so those are pretty different things too. Also, where are you getting this definition from? I study biology for a living and I don't know anyone who doesn't consider the term "human being" to include the whole life cycle of the organism.
Frankly, I think a lot of the issue lies with where you decide the value of a life comes from.
Species? Speciesism is kinda fucking the world right now as we make tons of species go extinct to make room for humans above all things.
The sum of a being's autonomy or it's life experiences? Kinda ableist/ leads to saying children have less intrinsic value than the elderly (which is not exactly a common viewpoint)
It's potential for life? That would mean we should value fetuses above all other life
Sky Daddy said so? ...doesn't really need any criticism as it's so inherently problematic
My personal feelings are almost entirely mixed and agnostic on this subject, so I'm trying to keep them out of this discussion, but my point here is I don't think you are seeing double enough to realize how easily a different perspective changes the whole argument into a "righteous" one.
The people you are arguing with ABSOLUTELY have hypocritical stances, but we should focus on attacking those, not straw man arguments that don't take into account that they have ENTIRELY alternate world views, that are frankly, not simply as dismissable as saying "well, WE define it differently"
Not the same one, he just used that username
Disregarding my personal views on this subject, this is a straw man argument.
You have very noticably left out that pro-lifers view the fetus as one of these individuals you say the Pro-choice regard so highly. The Pro life argument is that it should be systemically illegal to end the life of what they view as innocent individuals.
Which... yes, is kind of similar to the general take on this article, regardless of your views on the individuality of fetuses
You only THINK we don't know