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    My Truly Radical Views: I Am Calling A Revolution To Bring About Equality For ALL!

    I have truly radical political views. I believe in complete equality for absolutely *everyone*. And by everyone, that is exactly what I mean: *every*one. I believe that every living organism — from bacteria to plants to fungi to all animals to humans — should have equal rights. Now, you may be...
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    What attracts anti-abortion males to this site?

    Not necessarily. I have a solution to that. I think cannibalism is acceptable if you do not have an implicit social contract with the individual you are eating. Because of globalization, I think almost all humans on Earth now have an implicit social contract with each other, so in practice in...
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    What attracts anti-abortion males to this site?

    Because I don’t buy the ideology of materialism which states that consciousness arises from matter, and hence, that only certain complex arrangements of matter (such as brains) possess it. You compare a ZEF to a flower or a couch, but ironically, there is actually a view called panpsychism...
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    The Underlying Psychological Motivations Of Pro-Lifers

    I am a man. And to be honest, although I support the freedom of anyone to have any opinion they want about when the life of a new individual organism begins and when personhood begins, I think there is a correct scientific answer to the first of those questions (when the life of a new individual...
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    The Underlying Psychological Motivations Of Pro-Lifers

    Hmm. Is there any evidence that God regards a given creature having a soul to entail that humans are not allowed to eat them? And aside from a religious approach, let’s look at a philosophical approach to the soul, as well. Traditionally, in philosophy, the soul has often been equated with the...
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    The Underlying Psychological Motivations Of Pro-Lifers

    Yeah, I get what you’re saying about Plan B. And as for the double standard of unborn humans being held to be superior to other animals, I am in total agreement with you here. I do not think humans are superior to other species, and I am equally opposed to abortion of unborn non-human animals...
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    The Underlying Psychological Motivations Of Pro-Lifers

    I know. Technically, I am pro-choice as well, since I don’t support making abortion illegal. Many in the animal rights movement tend to be pro-choice. And meanwhile, many in the pro-life movement tend not to care too much about non-human animals. I care about all life. I would say I am...
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    The Underlying Psychological Motivations Of Pro-Lifers

    At a certain stage in pregnancy, an embryo does have a tail. No, I am not referring to sperm. And you’re putting words in my mouth. As I stated, I don’t support making abortion illegal, and I’m certainly not denying a woman the right to decide what is of value and meaning to her. I certainly do...
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    The Underlying Psychological Motivations Of Pro-Lifers

    To start off, although I do not support making abortion illegal, I am nevertheless pro-life at heart, always have been, and always will be. I am going to share what I consider to be the deep underlying psychological reasons for my views on abortion, because I suspect I am not at all a typical...
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    I Am A Mind-Body Dualist, But I Think It Applies To All Species Equally, Not Just Humans

    Why does it seem to me as if many dualists are human exceptionalists, who believe that only humans have an immortal soul, and all other species don’t? Even René Descartes, who famously proposed dualism, believed that non-human species were not even conscious because, in his view, they did not...
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    If You Are Pro-Choice On Abortion, You Should Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research

    It's a subtle distinction, but it's there. It's the distinction between potentialities that are mere potentialities, and potentialities that are also actual, present properties, as well.
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    If You Are Pro-Choice On Abortion, You Should Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research

    My argument is not based on the potentiality of the zygote. Rather, it is based on the present status of the zygote. All of those other cells that, yes, can be reprogrammed to totipotency, are only potential persons, in my view. I think I have not gotten my point across clearly enough. What...
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    If You Are Pro-Choice On Abortion, You Should Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research

    It hasn't. The article correctly points out that the only difference between a zygote and a cuticle cell is its epigenetic state -- which genes are expressed. I have no qualms with this portion. It then goes on to minimize the significance of this difference. This very difference is, indeed...
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    If You Are Pro-Choice On Abortion, You Should Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research

    Exactly. I made that point earlier in this thread. Now that alternative sources of stem cells are readily available, there is really no justification for the killing of embryos in vitro to remain legal.
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    If It's True That Planned Parenthood Is Donating Fetal Tissue…

    …Then, for the pro-choice side, this represents an instance of hypocrisy of the highest order. With the analogy that forcing someone to remain pregnant is equivalent to forcing someone to donate an organ, which, as is often pointed out, even corpses are not compelled to do, it is blatantly...
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