I have not read enough to have come across something truly horrible, but felt that his pro-life stance and take on global warming were more ideological than intellectually supported (or were perhaps directed to ideological audiences).
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Replying to @Plinz @EricRWeinstein
I don't know what he says about gw but i find his pro life arguments very well reasoned. Choice and life are really though ideological arguments unless people are debating when life begins.
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Replying to @Nick_Soapdish @EricRWeinstein
Of course he is free to impose religious norms to declare fertilized human eggs to be sacred in ways that adult pigs are not, but he cannot rationally claim a moral universalism for that preference without requiring everyone to join the religion.
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Pro-choice is not an ideological position, because it does not ask pro-lifers to abort their fertilized eggs if they don't want to. It is a rational pluralist solution in the face of an irreconcilable value conflict.
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Replying to @Plinz @EricRWeinstein
Well pigs and people aren't quite the same thing. We do eat pigs. One ideological position is human life is sacred and the other is a woman's choice is paramount over the unborn. Neither are or can be rational arguments
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I believe they're both meaning/value/definition of life arguments. Pro life is something akin to that fetus is 100% a human and choice (usually) say it's not or 10% something like that
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Sorry I should clarify that I agree that making a choice is steeped in rationality (want to raise the baby, finance, etc.) but whether that's ok because you don't believe it's a life or enough of a life I believe is ideological.
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Replying to @Nick_Soapdish @EricRWeinstein
Values are an arbitrary cultural programming. My actions can be partially derived from my values, but it would be irrational to expect others to follow my values and not their own. This pluralism is a prerequisite for any non-totalitarian society, and Shapiro must know that.
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Replying to @Plinz @EricRWeinstein
That's a very good point. It's actually given me a lot to think about, thank you.
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Sorry to come back to this :) I believe he argues that abortion is akin to infanticide. I assume this would mean his argument is the unborn's rights are being infringed upon. I would really like to see him unpack your point about personal freedom/values.
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The problem is totalitarianism, of which he (I think correctly) accuses the progressivist left. If he rejects totalitarianism, that is incompatible with his attempt to claim universality for a position that is almost exclusively shared by religious conservatives.
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