Recent content by Somewhereinpurgatory

Agreed. There was also a study that showed crime declined in the US after Roe v Wade (supreme court case that effectively legalized abortion here). The causality of abortion and lower crime rates is a hotly debated topic, but I think there’s a correlation...

Not as weak as yours. You just picked apart a detail because you wanted to argue with a religious strawman based on a brief Devil’s advocate comment I made. Do you agree that a zygote, unlike an egg, a sperm, or gametes, the mother’s hemorrhoids or whatever else you want to throw out there...

It ties back politically to when a citizen’s rights begin (conception, birth, once they reach voting age) and whether abortion should be legal. I think it should be legal, but I also dislike hearing crying babies on airplanes.

You’re getting upset and huffing about. It’s a sign of emotional immaturity. Also I’m an atheist.

What insults? I’ve glanced at your replies to others and it’s apparently not just me you react this way to. It’s funny how you resorted to pedantry and extrapolated such nonsense. So, that all serves to prove your ill conceived (the pun here is worth the time taken to read this thread) point...

Not since your last response. You seem easily rattled and prone to anger. Keep typing.

Are you serious?

People with Downs Syndrome or other birth defects may have extra or fewer. So what? That’s beside the point. It’s a human that has its own set of DNA distinct from its mother’s and can’t be compared to a skin tag or a tapeworm. Regardless of one’s stance on abortion (I’m fine with it), it...

That’s ridiculous: a skin tag doesn’t have a discrete set of 46 chromosomes that is distinct from its host body. It is not, nor will it ever develop to be, a self sustaining entity.

If you’re misclassifying the primitive communist gift economy as capitalist. It was not. Later, capitalist systems latched themselves onto and perverted the natural human cooperative state. In that regard, yes, people “got used to capitalism.” That’s probably what you were trying to say but it...

Scientifically, one could posit that a complete set of 46 chromosomes constitutes a discrete human life form.

Not pointless but an overrepresented distraction whereby the powerful can then cry oppression for themselves. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_billionaires https://www.financialplannerla.com/gay-married-couples/

Cool avatar but, no. Your first argument could be misapplied to feudalism in the same way you’ve misapplied it to Capitalism. Just because that’s the way its been doesn’t mean that’s the way it should be. I agree with you regarding philosophy change and the need for the capable to be on board...

The Prisoner

Bill of rights and its derivatives. I’m uninterested in engaging in a “my flawed country is better than your flawed country” debate. As Capitalism is global, so too is the workers’ struggle. Economic collectivism, however, need not come at the expense of individual rights and liberties...