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Recent content by Cessen
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non theraputic circumcision
Indeed. Hence why the sensitivity could vary from guy to guy despite all guys have highly innervated foreskins. And when I spoke of perceptual sensitivity, I suppose I was referring to both intensity and subtlety, as that has been my experience. But as you pointed out, fingers and lips have... -
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non theraputic circumcision
A few points to make. First: From the little bit of foreskin that I have left, I'd say that it is. I've been able to achieve orgasm from only stimulation of my vestige of foreskin, but never from glans-only stimulation (and these attempts were made long before I was aware of what circumcision... -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
If you think legislation is all based on science, then you are in for a big surprise. Furthermore, I have never claimed that any of these assumptions about sentience aren't valid for ethical or other forms of decision making. Only that they are outside the realm of science. -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
How? How do you observe anything's sentience other than your own? You still have not addressed this. Your failure to recognize my analogous (or at least attempted analogous) argument is astounding. Please address it as it was intended, rather than as a serious argument that fingernails are... -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
An assumed correlation, without evidence. There can be no evidence without observability. No known examples violating the correlation between fingernails and sentience either, since you have fingernails (I assume), and you're the only thing that you can test for sentience. I guess that means... -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
Ah. Well, apparently you take these things more seriously than I do, then (meaning online debates, not abortion). Philosophy is all the exists in this case. If there were real facts, then yes, I would be interested in them. Also, unless you're just getting around to it (or are intentionally... -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
This link might interest you: argumentum ad hominem. -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
You apparently missed this post of mine. Very valid point. However, I don't really care to go to that trouble for the sake of a debate on an online forum. I don't imagine you would either. -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
I actually specifically avoided that issue and took it to a rediculous extreme. I was phrasing it in terms of men not being allowed to have a physical abortion in their own body. -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
Actually, depending on the way you look at it, it treats both genders completely equally. Men aren't allowed to have abortions either. Both genders have the right to use contraception, and can control their reproductive system equally that way. But only women are allowed to abort. (Granted... -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
Physiology Of Free Will Mark Hallett, MD (Incidentally, this cites the paper by Fisher C.M. that you cited the abstract of earlier.) The emphasis added is mine, of course. So, in other words, we don't even know how consciousness/sentience is even possible, much less a way to test for it. We... -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
While I agree that such research as you cited is valuable in determining when it is and is not ethical to perform an abortion, I still fail to see how sentience falls under the realm of science rather than philosophy. Conscious, not sentient. And I fail to see how EEG readings would establish... -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
Wow, that's quite an assertion there. Care to back it up? (See how childish it is to take things out of context?) -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
By sentience I mean that, for instance, a fish would actually be experiencing things, rather than just being a collection of matter and energy following the laws of physics. What is your definition? Please see posts #117 and #122 for my actual stance, which is different than the unintentional... -
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is pro-life discrimination against women?
Well, my goal in this case is not to prove anything--certainly not to you. You wouldn't believe it even if I could provide evidence. But I'm sure other's here will read that and chuckle to themselves knowingly. :-P