pssandwich
Pro-life, MRA, Social Democrat, Environmentalist, Atheist
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pssandwich
Pro-life, MRA, Social Democrat, Environmentalist, Atheist
13d ago
Thanks for the response! I disagree with you that this makes a case for personhood (as a distinct concept from "being a human organism").
Well whether a life is or is not a person is an important moral factor in deciding how immoral it is to kill that life.
I don't agree. in my moral system the only relevant factor is whether it's a human being or not. I can't think of any non-abortion/consistent life ethic issues in which not making this distinction would lead to a conclusion that you'd disagree with.
For example, people generally don't consider taking animal lives equally immoral as taking human lives
This issue can be resolved by just deciding axiomatically that human lives are important and animal lives are not. This is what I do in my moral system. There's no need to introduce a concept of personhood separate from being a human organism to resolve this issue normally. Moreover, I think even among animal rights people, the unironic belief that "animals are people too" is pretty fringe.
I'm aware that lots of people use the concept of "personhood" to talk about abortion, including some pro-lifers. I'm just not sure what it gets you outside of the context of the abortion debate, which is what I mean when I say it's an ad-hoc concept. I think you can recover the entirety of most pro-choicers' morality, aside from abortion/consistent life ethic stuff, by just defining "person" to mean the same thing as human organism. I don't even think this runs afoul of what most people who believe in animal rights think. But pro-choicers introduce this extra "personhood" concept that doesn't play any role in their other beliefs to resolve this one issue, rather than taking the simpler route of just defining everything in terms of being a human organism.
I'm not saying the pro-choice position is inconsistent. I'm saying that it requires introducing extra complexity to your moral system that isn't used for anything else. Is there any issue, aside from consistent life ethic/abortion stuff, in which you must appeal to personhood as distinct from being a human being in order to arrive at the normal position?
pssandwich
Pro-life, MRA, Social Democrat, Environmentalist, Atheist
14d ago
I can't tell you whether you should bother or not. But I will tell you why I read and occasionally post here.
The reason is that no one else will tolerate me. I'm the kind of person who is horrified both by the lack of concern for the poor among top republicans and the attempts to push transgender stuff on children by the democrats.
Sure, there are large parts of this board's culture I disagree with. There are certain opinions shared by the majority of board members that I find ridiculous or unconscionable. But I'd run into that anywhere. If you are the kind of person who thinks for yourself, you probably should run into that anywhere.
In my real life, I can't talk honestly to my left-wing friends about feminism or LGBT or abortion, and I can't talk to my right-wing friends about religion or the economy or the environment.
The best I can do is find people who are willing to talk.
pssandwich
Pro-life, MRA, Social Democrat, Environmentalist, Atheist
14d ago
What is the point of even introducing this personhood concept in the first place? The concept of "personhood" here has no applications other than justifying abortion (or maybe killing people like Terri Schiavo) and is completely independent of the rest of most pro-choicers' moral system. Why introduce an ad-hoc moral concept just for this one purpose? And why should pro-lifers like me find this convincing?
pssandwich
Pro-life, MRA, Social Democrat, Environmentalist, Atheist
1yr ago
What exactly did gamergaters do that justifies "firing them into the sun?" I followed the movement pretty closely and I don't even know what you're getting at here.
Do you mean the 0.01% of people who sent death threats to Quinn/Sarkeesian/Wu and were loudly denounced by the rest of the movement? I think it's been established that there were about a dozen or so people who sent death threats and there are ~100,000 kotakuinaction subscribers. Can you name a social movement that has fewer than 0.01% of people who are psychopaths?
If you mean something else, could you please be explicit about what it is?
9 is wildly overrated. The gameplay in 9 is totally broken. The animations take so long that everyone's ATB bar fills up at at the same time, so you can never guess what order the turns will happen!
The writing was also lousy. The "comic relief" character Quina is by my estimate the 6th funniest character of the main cast, behind Steiner, Zidane, Vivi, Eiko, and Garnet ("What's that phrase again? Oh yeah! Get off me you scumbag!") and arguably 7th because Freya and Zidane have that bit where he pretends he didn't know her name. Amarant was a wildly underdeveloped and pointless character, and while Freya was interesting the writers just forgot about her halfway through the game (common problem in final fantasy).
Great music though.
I haven't played them all, but of the ones I've played, I guess I'd rank them 12 < 3 < 9 < 4 < 5 < 8 < 7 < 10 < 6.
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