Feb 8, 2019 01:46 AM
(Feb 7, 2019 08:32 PM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ](Feb 7, 2019 06:44 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [ -> ]Syne Wrote:1,000 deaths compared to over 600,000 is easy math for the morally sane.
It's a 1,000 "actual" deaths compared to 600, 000 "potential" lives.
No, science clearly classifies them as actual human life. Not having realized any significant potential does not mean it is not a life.
Is an embryo [LIFE]? It has all the components that it needs to develop into a human being.
(Feb 3, 2019 06:40 AM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]The moral answer to the trolley problem is always the same...at least if you have a consistent morality. You obviously save the five-year-old first. Embryos will not reach any potential at all unless implanted and gestated, whereas a child is already a realized potential.
I don’t know, Syne. That sounds pretty inconsistent to me because we all know that there are plenty of people willing to adopt an embryo. If you really feel this way, you should have saved the embryos.
(Feb 5, 2019 09:06 PM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]Otherwise, you'd be pushing all the other choices women have, like the pill, the sponge, the patch, the ring, the shot, the implant, the morning-after pill, adoption, and even anonymously leaving the newborn at a fire station.
We do push contraceptives, and they have reduced the number of abortions, but why don’t we check in with your incel mentor, and listen to what he said about it.
A question raised to Jordan Peterson…
What do you make of the manosphere’s claim that woman’s liberation has led to our weakened ability to pair bond, the breakdown of the institute of marriage, and sexual inequity in favor of alpha men?
"I guess probably I would say that to the degree that all of that is true, I wouldn’t say that the women’s liberation movement is what’s done it. I don’t believe that the women’s liberation movement is the primary driver of women’s liberation. In fact, I think that it’s a secondary consequence of a far more radical biological revolution and that’s the invention of the birth control pill. The birth control pill essentially allowed females for the first time in evolutionary history to gain voluntary control over their reproductive function.
With the birth control pill women become more like men. Now they’re not destined at an early age to transform themselves into mothers or to allow themselves to be transformed by nature into mothers."
He thinks that women are suffering more now because we have to work. As far as favoring the alpha male is concerned, he thinks that anything that breakdowns pair bonding and the institution of marriage causes it because that’s part of the reason that society is set up as monogamous. It's in order to control this proclivity.
"It’s not good for the men that aren’t being chosen because that’s a recipe for resentment and aggression. So don’t underestimate the significance of the birth control pill. It’s like the hydrogen bomb or the computer chip. It’s a world revolutionary technology, and for all we know, it might do us in. Our population is declining."
He even says some more crazy shit about masturbation leading to self-contempt.
I mean…it is funny but it’s also scary because tons of men are buying into his bullshit. You being one of them.