My final reason is more Vulcan (or as I call it Spockian, but that may get confusing so it was rejected by my editor (me)). You might have heard of that philosophy that goes “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.” especially if you’ve seen Wrath of Khan. My first reason was of the one, my second of the few (the parents), this last is of the many, it is in fact evolutionary.
Evolution needs the various variety. It needs diversity in order for it to work best. When we don’t have diversity we have inbreeding. Abortion cuts off diversity. Abortion is against evolutionary principles, it is against our very nature.
One objection: We can purify our genes through good breeding (from animal husbandry) and cut off offensive shoots (from gardening techniques).
Answer: Humans are neither animals nor vegetation, and even if they were they would certainly not be cattle nor some potted plant. We are far more wild than other creatures of nature. And even if you could make an argument that God (or some deity like mother nature) does in fact do these things, we are not God (or mother nature).
As it is breeding may give you an excellent racehorse, but never the best wild horse.
Showing posts with label Reasonable doubt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reasonable doubt. Show all posts
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Reasonable Doubt (Abortion part 2)
Last time with reason number 1, I focused on fetal personhood. I went through as logically as I could with the only objections I understood. This time I would like to expand the scope to include the main people involved (so I hope).
There has been much research done that has connected physical and psychological trauma on women who have undergone abortions. I am too lazy to actually link you up with the research, instead I offer the pathos arguments here (be careful, some parts of the website are graphic) and then be done with them.
The point I would like to make for this argument is that the one thing that everyone can agree is feminine, whether you are spartan or amazonian or chinese is that women give birth. This is THE feminine trait (I would like to forestall scoffers by saying that men are generally accused (unfairly in some cases) of thinking with theirs). I know that Planned Parenthood and the abortion lobby has done an excellent job of selling how abortion allows control over this gift. This is utter hogwash. What abortion does is destroy that gift. It destroys it to the point that it could be easily said without contradiction that women are just prettier men who only get paid 75%. Women are not less than men, more than men, or the same as men. Women are women and men are men, equal and different. This is neither a prejudiced nor a bigoted statement, though it easily could be taken that way. Abortion is the enemy of feminism, and, as such, is also the enemy of masculinity (think about it, the definitions of the two are intimately linked, you can’t affect one without it affecting the other).
Reason 2: I am against abortion because it actively threatens my ability to be a good man.
There has been much research done that has connected physical and psychological trauma on women who have undergone abortions. I am too lazy to actually link you up with the research, instead I offer the pathos arguments here (be careful, some parts of the website are graphic) and then be done with them.
The point I would like to make for this argument is that the one thing that everyone can agree is feminine, whether you are spartan or amazonian or chinese is that women give birth. This is THE feminine trait (I would like to forestall scoffers by saying that men are generally accused (unfairly in some cases) of thinking with theirs). I know that Planned Parenthood and the abortion lobby has done an excellent job of selling how abortion allows control over this gift. This is utter hogwash. What abortion does is destroy that gift. It destroys it to the point that it could be easily said without contradiction that women are just prettier men who only get paid 75%. Women are not less than men, more than men, or the same as men. Women are women and men are men, equal and different. This is neither a prejudiced nor a bigoted statement, though it easily could be taken that way. Abortion is the enemy of feminism, and, as such, is also the enemy of masculinity (think about it, the definitions of the two are intimately linked, you can’t affect one without it affecting the other).
Reason 2: I am against abortion because it actively threatens my ability to be a good man.
God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Reasonable Doubt (Abortion part 1)
There are three reasons (arguments found by reason (otherwise I’d say because I’m Catholic)) that I am against abortion. This post is my best shot (at the moment) at describing the first.
The first is of the question of the rights of the fetus. I would like to point out that as soon as conception occurs the most fundamental and (possibly) the only scientific ontological change happens. DNA. The fetus is human and alive starting from conception, this is science. The only question that comes from this is when does the fetus have rights? Most notably the right to life. As I said before the only ontological change in the fetus’s development happens at conception. I have heard less logical conjectures though, I would like to present them : brain, heart, pain, birth.
The brain, without it would we be a person? Would we have the right to live? As I have met many brainless people (scarecrows anyone?), and I assume you have too, we should be able to get rid of this one quickly. The idea that personhood depends on the brain should be ridiculous with some thought, it would imply that the smarter a person is the more of a person, the more rights, that person should have. This would regard the aged, the mentally challenged (downs, autism, etc.), the insane as being somehow subhuman. This conclusion is reprehensible, therefore my conclusion is the brain is not a good enough answer (in other news blondes everywhere breath a sigh of relief).
The heart. We allow rich bastards to live, we love the tin man, not much else to say.
Pain. There is a medical condition that exists which describes someone who cannot feel pain, the name escapes me though. Even without nerves the cowardly lion saves the day (yes that will be the last Oz reference, sorry this one was such a stretch).
Birth. The most common illogical one, if you are in the womb you aren’t a person, if you are not in the womb you are a person. If you are in (Texas | USA | love) you are a person...
First reason: I am against abortion because it is logically, scientifically, and Occam’s razorly(sharp) altruistic.
The first is of the question of the rights of the fetus. I would like to point out that as soon as conception occurs the most fundamental and (possibly) the only scientific ontological change happens. DNA. The fetus is human and alive starting from conception, this is science. The only question that comes from this is when does the fetus have rights? Most notably the right to life. As I said before the only ontological change in the fetus’s development happens at conception. I have heard less logical conjectures though, I would like to present them : brain, heart, pain, birth.
The brain, without it would we be a person? Would we have the right to live? As I have met many brainless people (scarecrows anyone?), and I assume you have too, we should be able to get rid of this one quickly. The idea that personhood depends on the brain should be ridiculous with some thought, it would imply that the smarter a person is the more of a person, the more rights, that person should have. This would regard the aged, the mentally challenged (downs, autism, etc.), the insane as being somehow subhuman. This conclusion is reprehensible, therefore my conclusion is the brain is not a good enough answer (in other news blondes everywhere breath a sigh of relief).
The heart. We allow rich bastards to live, we love the tin man, not much else to say.
Pain. There is a medical condition that exists which describes someone who cannot feel pain, the name escapes me though. Even without nerves the cowardly lion saves the day (yes that will be the last Oz reference, sorry this one was such a stretch).
Birth. The most common illogical one, if you are in the womb you aren’t a person, if you are not in the womb you are a person. If you are in (Texas | USA | love) you are a person...
First reason: I am against abortion because it is logically, scientifically, and Occam’s razorly(sharp) altruistic.
God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey
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