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Vis a vis sentience. I can kill an amoeba and it's dead. It was never sentient. Just like a clump of cells people love to calkl a child.
That's nice. Doesn't really address the point of not ever having self awareness.
What your want is 'wards of the state' (your quote). That exists, now you'll have more.
It is a copout.
Utopian ideals are for fools. There's a thing called the real world and I'm asking people to look at it because that's where things actually happen. Based on this you have no solution.
originally posted by: JinMI
You said dead.
Again, poll the dead and get a back to me.
The agreed reality is that well have more wards of the state. Not great, but better than death.
Indeed. Utopias are for fools.
You keep skirting my proposed solutions. Thats fine.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
You seem to live in a much different reality than I see around me.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: JinMI
Finally? I addressed you direct when you asked.
No need to lie.
How many times were you asked?
Yeah, because when it's aborted it's dead. FFS.
Sure. Get your Ouija Board.
Hopefully you're not one of those small government types because this would make you a tax and spend liberal now.
I addressed them, they are either in place now or reliant on behavioral changes spurred by legislation, A.K.A. 'morality laws'. Those don't work, ask bootleggers.
originally posted by: JinMI
That makes no contextual sense to this line of conversation. Nice try though.
Your claim so use yours.
Dead babies < government spending. Its a fault i guess. How much do abortions cost the govt?
And im saying an abortion safety net isnt moral either.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: loam
Right, because that was the only item I mentioned- the entirety of my argument.
It's part of it, son, after you got all outrage-y about me saying this is what it would entail.
Oh, the sweet, sweet irony. It's scrumptious.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: loam
... 'euphemism'...
originally posted by: loam
Yes. You seem to enjoy those...like when you use the word 'love' when justifying your support for murdering unborn children.
A non-sentient clump of cells, once aborted, never knew it was alive. A child, born into a system where love is not provided know this. That's the 'context'.
You're the one who wants to talk to dead people. Knock yourself out.
Zero. And if it's not zero it's waaaaaaay more than 18 years of expenses for someone you're not capable of caring for in the manner that they should be cared for, i.e. loved.
No one gives a **** about people's personal morals. They should keep them to themselves.
originally posted by: JinMI
So by this logic we can kill wards of the state...
Youre the one claiming that being dead is preferable than being unloved.
OK, maybe abit too far off topic.
How about applying the dollar amount to current living welfare recipients? Should we do a cost analysis to see if they are worthy of continued life?
Except when they support not killing babies..