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Aella
@Aella_Girl
An old poster arguing against women's suffrage. I'm particularly fascinated by outdated arguments for things we today consider completely beyond dispute - arguments for slavery, child beating, genocide, racism, etc. I feel like I'm doing "argument archaeology" or something.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Not really? My mind doesn't change, but it does freak me out a little bit how good people were at rationalizing things then (and by extension, probably today too)
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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Like, pro-slavery arguments were 'sane'-sounding. Most of what I've read relies on two main points - 1., if you're gonna be anti-slavery you have to change how you treat women/children/animals which is absurd, and 2., we're actively helping the enslaved, this is best for them
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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E.g., I'm ok with killing in self defense. If you want to call it "BRUTAL SLAUGHTERR", that's annoying but like, the label you slap on it, however sensationalist, doesn't change the underlying thing I'm discussing. If you wanna call it BRUTAL SLAUGHTERR then ok sure whatever
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Jeff
@catoyescaesarno
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Please go view a 20 week old fetus. Then digest the fact we abort (kill) 10,000 20+ week old fetuses / year. If you do this, you'll be horrified at what we're doing on the abortion front. If you're not horrified, then you are a monster
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Fatuous Pauper
@basedc1
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Ok, your argument here is just ridiculous. It's not mere semantics as it also encompasses infanticide. In fact I'd go so far as to say your point was made poorly enough that most people would not know what argument you intended to make.
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Mike Partyka
@MichaelJPartyka
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All you're doing is proving language matters: "Growth in the mother at e.g., 3 months" sounds antiseptic & inconsequential compared to "human being at e.g., 3 months' development". Your language reveals how you see it, which is how you justify killing it.
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@Aella_Girl
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ok since people are getting mad at this, what I mean is: I don't care what language we use. Whatever "growth in mother at e.g., 3 months" is, I'm ok with the mother ending that, calling it a baby or not isn't the issue at hand.
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Buttons McBoomboom
@Sandwich_Smith
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We will NEVER find common ground on abortion. Many of the responses to your tweet prove that. Some of them even call you a monster just for bending over backward for them. I think we should just agree to disagree. But pro-life people are just as obstinate as old socialists are.
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Ozwiler
@I_taxi_I
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This is literally the objection pro life has to abortion. The issue isn’t “Women shouldn’t have autonomy of their bodies.” It’s “Women don’t have autonomy over their bodies when it harms an innocent person.
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