Douche said:
No, dickhead, it is not necessary to "eat life" to maintain our own life. Meat is not necessary for survival or good health. Unless you define life broadly enough to cover vegetables.
Yes, life includes vegetables. Read a biology textbook. But that point is neither here nor there.
And there is no longer a biological imperative to ensure that every pregnancy is successful. There are six billion people on the planet, ffs, we're not cavemen anymore.
Of course there is still a biological imperative to ensure the propagation of life. If you don't believe that this is the case, and that you can selectively choose which life to continue and which to discontinue (for instance, abortions) without any critical guideline as to why this is ok, then I cannot continue a debate with you, because you're utterly, utterly confused.
Sylvester said:
So let me get this right: You're against abortion not because of any suffering that occurs or anything, but rather, only for ideological reasons.
Strawman.
I'm against abortion because it is illogical, and against my instinct. I value life and thus I cannot permit abortion.
Because a fetus terminated in the first trimester doesn't undergo any suffering, whereas that steak you just ate went through a very traumatic and painful death to get where it is now.
I don't care. I need to eat meat to survive. I like life.
Um, no.
Call me a biologist here, but since when does saying simple "life" *clearly* mean specifically human life?
It doesn't. I needed to clarify what I meant. I just explained that to you.
1. Why?
2. There is a biological imperitive to ensure the propogation of only our offspring, not the whole species. Actually in biological terms, the rest of the species are actually competitors who stand in your way of survival (except potnetial mates, but yeah)
This is probably true enough.
Should we allow others to engage in whatever behaviour suits them so long as it doesn't threaten our individual survival? I think that would be reasonable in an ideal world. We don't live in an ideal world though. We don't permit mother X to kill child X. Why is this? We believe that it is inherently wrong. We believe it to be inherently wrong not because of what that spacktard Nietzsche said, but because it is engrained within our psychology! Humans are programmed not to kill - it is our instinct not to kill, and when we find out that killing has occured we have a visceral response in our disapproval of it. It is not because of God and society that we reject murder, killing, and rape, it is because we believe it to be a threat to the survival of our species. Why else? Cuz? No, it is because it is our biological duty to ensure that this does not occur. This is why laws and so on have been formed on the basis of "murder is wrong".
Most of us do not kill. It is a behaviour that the majority have deemed wrong. There are people out there that are, for the lack of a better word, social retards. They kill people, and so we lock them in prison. Rightly so! The same applies with abortion. There are females out there that have an ill formed psychology, and who believe that it is acceptable to abort their children - to
kill their offspring. These 'social retards', like murderers, need to be stopped. We have established that killing is wrong, and why this is so. Why is abortion a unique example then? It is killing, is it not? I think the answer is yes.
Killing is wrong. Abortion is killing. I do not believe in abortion.
In the case of a raped woman, the woman needs to deal with it. Something bad happened to her. This is unfortunate but it is not a reason to kill the baby formed in a rape. There is nothing wrong with the baby, and there is no reason to terminate the life of this baby simply because it was conceived via ill means. Life >>> omg i mite have a bastard child!
In the case of a mother threatened by the birth of a child, then I would be pro-abortion only if the mother had a greater ability to provide further life than the baby.