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Why Are Abortion Proponents So Emotional?
Proponents of abortion get quite emotional, many to the point of irrationality. Their reactions to the potential that there might be even the slightest constraints on abortion are way over the top. We have seen quite a bit of hysterics on display the last couple of months.
Why? I can’t think of another issue that generates such a high level of emotion, even supposedly existential issues like “climate change.” The weird sex advocates get emotional and are very persistent, but even they don’t get hysterical in the same way that abortion advocates do.
What is it about abortion that causes such reactions?
For this discussion, I am referring to the extreme activists who put themselves on public display, not the vast muddy middle of people that @susanquinn addresses below.
[I operate on a theory that the more I understand the other party’s motivations, the more likely I can help either find a workable solution, or convince them that they might be mistaken.]
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I propose that we just leave it there. Neither of us will convince the other, and I like you.
I like you too. And if you wish.
Scientifically, the difference between a chimp and a human is great. Just look around you. Can a chimp design a car and build one? Does a chimp live in a house? Does a chimp create a bourbon I’m now sipping? Come on. You’ve bought into this pseudo science.
I’m intrigued by chimp bourbon.
I have a feeling it would be flavored with poop.
It is made with real chimps?
Having a background in both science and atheism, I find that “debunking religion” (God) with science is a terrible misuse of science and damaging to the credibility of the science-minded. Even my agnostic scientist husband agrees. Science has nothing to say about God or the philosophical/logical premises on which the West has thrived (infinite regression is a logical impossibility, for example). Debunking God is not what science is for!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-debunking-atheism
Now go have a blessed day, dammit!
You’ve conflated religion with God, which I did mean to avoid in my statement about explanations and refutations.
But you are convinced that we are the incestuous children of Adam and Eve? Right?
Nope. Try not to put words in my mouth.
Can you please write about what it means to be an atheist?
So do we descend from apes or not?
We (probably) do, although I think an honest scientist would say there are weaknesses in the theory of evolutionary biology — like “random” mutation — that seem kind of hand-wavey.
The Bible (the Book of Genesis you’re alluding to) is not a science text book. It is, however, chock full of wisdom about human nature, both male and female.
Do not avoid the question. Do we come from apes or do we not come from apes?
No call to be unpleasant. She did answer your question, even as we wander farther from the OP topic.
Indeed. There’s no need to ape the emotional pro-aborts. (Pun intended. Let’s lighten up, shall we?)
LOL. I’m not sure it’s worth trying. :)
I am sorry if I come as unpleasant but she did not in fact answer my question.
I think I answered multiple times. I think we evolved in the line of primates we call “apes,” but I don’t know it any more than you or anyone else who makes such truth claims. We share much of our DNA with other primates, but obviously something extraordinary happened along the way (consciousness, language, etc.) that makes us radically different.
As Mr. C. likes to explain, science doesn’t operate in absolutes (scientists are skeptics) — it provides the best explanations we have so far, but science works best when it’s open to correction (unlike the “consensus” on climate change, for example). The heresy many dabble in in which science supposedly explains everything is called “scientism.”
How about Baboon Bourbon? 🐵
It’s non-alcoholic, but I like my Capuchino.
Silverback spirits would be a nice name for an environmentally conscience alcohol company.
Gratitude is a muscle that atrophies quickly.
Me too, sadly.
And our side offers many opportunities for rage in the way we talk about their side.
Mostly correctly, but it remains kind of addictive.
I suspect some have contempt for their mothers as loser breeders.
Brainwashed by their Leftist ideology that new human life is somehow a bad thing, but #SaveTheWhales is good!
And of course THEIR OWN births and lives are just fine because THEY will #SaveTheWhales. And what-not.
It’s not easy to be
edgingedgy and boring at the same time, but WICMAoMD manages that handily.Added: ‘tedious’ is probably a better word.
I do think that people who are mad at G-d and humanity for the crime of existing are attracted to leftism. I’m with Jordan Peterson on this one.