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This is faulty reasoning. Most (if not all) of the cells in our body need to stay with the body in order to obtain nourishment and survive; if we took ...

Alright, when you think about it isn't the whole pregnancy, childhood, youth thing a bit unneccesary? Wouldn't it make more sense if we just carved our children out of clay? ...

Let them ban gay marriage. After all, democracy is about the will of the majority and if the Proposition passes, that's just the trend of current morality. It's all relative ...

Hmm, sounds good but I'm not a hundred percent sure that I fit the requirement. Some of my stuff like: or seems to fit the requirements, but I may be ...

Snoink is this really an either or dichotomy (which I think is also a false dichotomy?) Gadi. wrote: Quote: But I do believe I actually support abortion in the case ...

Hopefully

Wow, yeah sorry about that one Snoink, I've never encountered this viewpoint before and arrogantly brushed it off as satire. I'm truly sorry about that, and the article proved to ...

Snoink is this a straw man or just ordinary satire? Failing that is it merely an argument I haven't come across before? You really do tend to throw the spanner ...

Epistomologically, Snoink, or in terms of references? :P

Just like the collection of living cells we call bacteria....the point of contention is *meaningful* life (if I can presume to speak for fellow pro-choicers), and for the record, early ...

Alright, just to swing it around the other way, a lot of people have been claiming that abortion is murder, and yet that raped women have the right to an ...

Nope. books are more available than ever, and there are more readers out there than ever! As long as the reading of a book is iconised as an intellectual activity, ...

I just wanted to remind the pro-abortion crowd that the argument that "people will do it anyway" isn't necessary or sufficient for making your case. The examples that follow this ...

Mk. For a start, marginalising me for the religious beliefs you've decided I don't have is both offensive and an ad hominem, it adds nothing to the debate. Are you ...

You realise that your premises are rather disagreeable to the people you might be trying to convince; in a debate it's probably best to start from an agreed upon point ...