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I respect people who believe banning abortion is saving the lives of babies. You're not evil, you're doing the best you can by your own worldview. However I don't share this belief, and am thankful to any tech that gives me control over my body, even in violation of govmt law.

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So what part of “babies are humans that deserve constitutional rights” do you not believe in?

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"human" isn't a binary category, it's a fuzzy cluster of concepts, and fetuses are too far outside the edge of fuzzy cluster for it to trigger any sort of moral responsibility for me

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This really strikes me as a belief that is held merely as an excuse to justify abortion rather than one that is logical, much less scientific. It’s at the very least an extremely subjective belief.

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I hold the belief about a lot of things - this is at the core of how I engage with concepts. Concepts are not (rarely?) binary; they are clusters. It's a pretty common thing in ratspace with a lot of writing about it, and I've discussed it before in not-abortion contexts.

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Aella is probably referring to stuff like this; The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories lesswrong.com/posts/aMHq4mA2 and the Noncentral Fallacy lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8

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The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories - LessWrong

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I wanna point out that one of the many reasons mammals survived the mass extinction is the fact that they knew when they had to abort and or (yes I know) consume their offspring to survive and have chance at having offspring. Evolution would agree with you.