- 03 Feb 2017 18:10
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Unborn children are not the same as living people, that's true. But people who live in Afghanistan are not the same as your friends and neighbors either. This proves nothing.
As for your "no magical creation" - you seem to be suggesting that the definition of particular words justifies killing.
Using text-based rhetoric to justify killing... will drive us to extinction. You can't just say, "this creature doesn't meet the Oxford definition of person, so let's kill it!" without opening the doors to extreme amorality. And droning non-human "enemy combatants" or "terrorists" is another way of using text (which is socially constructed) to justify extremely toxic behavior that is very real and thus really harmful.
I don't accept your pedantic idea that, somehow, the definition of "person" can justify certain forms of murder. "Person" is just a word (like "human," and "life"), and all you've done is attach a definition to it, and now you're ready to kill.
Whoever controls your dictionary can use you to kill whomever they want killed.
Cocoa Jackson wrote:Unborn children are not the same as living people so there is no comparison.
There is no magical creation of a human at conception. People develop in gradual stages and there is no clear cut stage where we go from not a person to a person in an instant.
Unborn children are not the same as living people, that's true. But people who live in Afghanistan are not the same as your friends and neighbors either. This proves nothing.
As for your "no magical creation" - you seem to be suggesting that the definition of particular words justifies killing.
Using text-based rhetoric to justify killing... will drive us to extinction. You can't just say, "this creature doesn't meet the Oxford definition of person, so let's kill it!" without opening the doors to extreme amorality. And droning non-human "enemy combatants" or "terrorists" is another way of using text (which is socially constructed) to justify extremely toxic behavior that is very real and thus really harmful.
I don't accept your pedantic idea that, somehow, the definition of "person" can justify certain forms of murder. "Person" is just a word (like "human," and "life"), and all you've done is attach a definition to it, and now you're ready to kill.
Whoever controls your dictionary can use you to kill whomever they want killed.
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The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange
The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange
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