I've been chewing on a thing and I want to write about it a bit but I need to, sadly, expose my object level beliefs in advance so that I am really clearly understood at the meta. I do not have strong feelings about abortion policy, apart from a very hard preference . . .
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for the continued legality of technology-assisted reproduction and associated research. Okay. SO that out of the way . . . I'm puzzled by the intensity of feelings about this matter from the prochoice camp. If you believe that abortion is murder, it makes a lot of sense to me
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that your advocacy against abortion would be strident and encompassing. I don't think there's much to explain there. What I don't entirely understand (and I am not dismissing, rather trying to grapple with) the proportionate sentimental intensity from the prochoice camp.
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I'm trying to be a good Chamberlinian scientist and so I have multiple working hypotheses (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/148/3671/754 …). One is that there are values at play on the prochoice side that I don't understand or share (perhaps). Another (more interesting, I think) is that . . .
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in any political conflict, there might be a sort of van der Waals force, where intensity from one side induces a proportionate passion from the other that might not otherwise manifest. This second possibility has Broader Implications. Hm
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I think this is probably a major component of any group conflict and is probably operating with this issue to a significant degree. I don't think it even comes close to solely explaining the intensity of the pro-choice side though. It is a contributing factor for sure.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
as a thought experiment, let's try to come up with an analogous issue that applies solely to men. Not looking to mirror pregnancy/abortion, but come up with something about male bodily experience that could in principle be regulated in an overbearing way.
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the feds are coming to cork you
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