One of the strongest pieces of evidence that our culture sucks at thinking or empathy is the abortion debate. Pro-choicers constantly characterize pro-lifers as "not actually caring about babies, but just want to control the bodies of women" which is one of the stupidest things
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Stop saying it's about controlling women's bodies, it isn't. Acknowledge that the opponent thinks they're doing good, but are misled, and then continue the debate with actual real facts, not lazy mischaracterizations.
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The kind of person who debates a pro-lifer with the lazy insistence that their motivation is bad is the kind of person who believes good things because they are *lucky*, not because they are *good at thinking*
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This is the same kind of person who, had they been born in a different culture, would have embraced the norms of that culture, even if they were barbaric. I can't credit these pro-choicers with any correctness beyond what was given them by their culture.
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And the amount the "they only want to control women!" narrative permeates every discussion is incredible. It's such a heavily dominant opinion in any progressive circle and any suggestion that maybe they actually are trying to save babies is outright rejected or even mocked.
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You are making the argument that the pro-life crowd is calling me a baby murderer, and that I am the one who is supposed to be civil in my response.
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Yes, absolutely. You know you're not murdering babies. They think that you don't know you're murdering babies and they're trying to help you by letting you know so that you stop. They suspect you wouldn't murder babies if you knew that's what you were doing.
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This is the one tweet I don't agree with. Can you clarify if you mean that you're okay with really late abortion in all circumstances?
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Changing their name to “anti-choice” falls into this quite nicely.
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I wanted to use an even term. Pro-choice and pro-life sound more evenly matched than anti-choice and anti-life
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But how is it better? You mean even if the child has no diseases they can abort it?
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