Philosophy

delrem

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9. That doesn't make sense to me.

Mon Jun 22, 2015, 05:59 AM

Jun 2015

Issues regarding whether a foetus is a rights-bearer (what rights?), or a "person" (how defined - by the SCOTUS, so equivalent to a corporation?), are important to me. Period.

Such questions are far and away more important to me than getting all het up about someone's "tweets" on "twitter".

(and I TOTALLY don't understand the author's comparison between "belief" in modus ponens (which is the rule that if we're certain that if X happens then Y happens, as a general rule, and X happens then we can be pretty damn confident that Y will happen - along with other variants to satisfy the picky: x->Y, & X, therefore Y) and "belief" in "the fun" of torturing babies. WTF?

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