some analysts state that there will be no recovery yet
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Most highly evolved? How presumptuous. So if a more highly evolved creature were to land on our planet, would you willingly give up your 'inalienable' rights? By your argument, you should, and they should have all rights to exterminate you at free will.
Great argument. Any other nonsense hypothetical situations you want to add? If your aliens were hostile, we would have to fight or die I suppose. The winner would be the new dominant species on the planet. Once again- Duh...
Is it somewhat arbitrary? Perhaps. But so is deciding that a multi-celled organism in a woman's uterus has more rights than many much more complex, living creatures. Three months is about when the fetus begins rapidly developing into a full-fledged human being.
Your scientific knowledge is no doubt astounding, but you clearly know nothing of biology.
And your political argument is nonsense.
You don't agree that freedom is preferable to servitude? You must be a liberal.
How does the agreement of society that freedom is better than servitude provide rights to an unborn child?
Any individual should be free to not be killed by another individual.
This argument obviously devolves into a question of when life begins- conception, birth, somewhere in between? Who can say? You, in your wisdom, say it is at the end of the first trimester. Well what about a day before? What about one second before?
People like you have no logical reason to determine the time when life begins, you base it off what you 'feel' is right. But, society needs more than what you and your ilk 'feel' to decide who lives and who dies.
Philosophy would be no where without hypotheticals. Most evolved assumes some environmental conditions. If the polar ice caps melt and the world floods, are we still the most evolved? You seem to equate intelligence with evolution -- which is perhaps true at this junction, but may not be true in the future. The most evolved is the most efficienct at surviving. My point here is to make you realize that you are taking an specicentric point of view without considering the alternative cases. By your own definition, your enslavement by a superior race would be morally justifiable. In which case, if there were biological proof that one human race were intellectually superior (if we consider it as the metric of evolution) to the others, would you be alright with enslavement?Quote from hofficita:
Great argument. Any other nonsense hypothetical situations you want to add? If your aliens were hostile, we would have to fight or die I suppose. The winner would be the new dominant species on the planet. Once again- Duh...
You refute and fail to provide evidence to the contrary. Excellent argument.Quote from hofficita:
Your scientific knowledge is no doubt astounding, but you clearly know nothing of biology.
No, I agree -- but it has nothing to do in a discussion of the rights of life or death. What does servitude have to do with abortion?Quote from hofficita:
You don't agree that freedom is preferable to servitude? You must be a liberal.
And this has to do with servitude and freedom how? Specifically the servitude part.Quote from hofficita:
Any individual should be free to not be killed by another individual.
I choose the first trimester because I believe it is the appropriate length of time to allow the female to protect her rights. Arbitrary, perhaps -- but so is claiming that a sperm and an egg have more rights than fully mature non-human creatures. So, then, why are my sperm not given rights? Surely they all have the potential to be human! Contraception, then, must be like genocide! More seriously, under your choice of when to give full rights, wouldn't a miscarriage be manslaughter? If the right to life is given at conception, how are those rights defended and upheld in court?Quote from hofficita:
This argument obviously devolves into a question of when life begins- conception, birth, somewhere in between? Who can say? You, in your wisdom, say it is at the end of the first trimester. Well what about a day before? What about one second before?
People like you have no logical reason to determine the time when life begins, you base it off what you 'feel' is right. But, society needs more than what you and your ilk 'feel' to decide who lives and who dies.
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This statements proves you are ill equipped to discuss these matters. Of course sperm do not have the potential to be human. Basically, you are a moron.
Quote from BlindLemonBoosh:
You mind sharing the analytical method that led you that conclusion?
"Consider the following: If Obama's growing lead in the polls was a major factor in the market's plunge that began in mid-September, then sensitive econometric tests should have been able to detect, for the months leading up to September, a statistically significant correlation between gyrations in the Obama contract and the stock market. But no such correlation emerged."
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...x?guid={943D9EF9-47DA-463A-A7D0-10295D680C29}
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Naturally, the right comes from being the most highly evolved animals on the planet.
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As far as when the sperm and egg combine- that seems the only logical point in time to endow an individual with rights.
Quote from dlgilbert4:
If I get pregnant, the first and only thing I'm doing is heading to Planned Parenthood and getting that parasite out of my system. I have the right to decide whether or not I'm going to have a child. You, unfortunately, do not.