Harri wrote:Following the trend of serious conversations and breasts-
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Is he right? Is it none of his business? Abortion, yay or nay?
man has sex with intent to impregnate | man has sex without intent to impregnate | |
woman has sex with intent to become pregnant | woman has baby and both are equally responsible | woman carries child to term and man relenquishes all responsibility to woman |
woman has sex without intent to become pregnant | woman carries child to term but relenquishes all responsibility to man | if child is carried to term neither is responsible (adoption/abortion) |
Jake wrote:Ok ok I'll bite.
I think it's logical to assume that intent is the best barometer for determining whether he is justified. It's much easier for arguments sake to distill this down into a legal issue rather than a moral one. If we can determine his intent, we should be able to determine his rights in this matter. I'm of the opinion that cases of dispute regarding zygotes, fetuses and children should be treated (legally) in a similar way that we treat everything else (e.g. murder). Once we determine the intent of the individuals involved, then we can determine what what responsibility each person has to each other and or the zygote, fetus or child in question.
I'll use a spreadsheet to detail the many possibilities.
man has sex with intent to impregnate
man has sex without intent to impregnate woman has sex with intent to become pregnant
woman has baby and both are equally responsible
woman carries child to term and man relenquishes all responsibility to woman woman has sex without intent to become pregnant
woman carries child to term but relenquishes all responsibility to man
if child is carried to term neither is responsible (adoption/abortion)
If he can prove that both of their intentions before sex were to have a baby and she changed her mind afterwards, there should certainly be legal recourse. To me this isn't an argument of Roe v Wade but simply an issue of keeping people honest when there's repercussions to your actions. In any other legal circumstance an individual would not be able to make up their mind after the incident in question has occurred. I don't feel that this should be any different.
If someone dies and you played a role in that person's death the job of the courts is to determine to what end you are at fault. Are you guilty or innocent of playing a role, and if guilty to what end. Did you murder the person and if so, with premeditation or simply commit involuntary manslaughter, an accident without any intent to do harm? This can mean the difference between you yourself being murdered with capital punishment or perhaps something as little as a monetary fine.
Issues with conception carry similar tones. Dealing with any foul play in the incident will become moot, it doesn't matter if she says she's on birth control or not, if he's really gotten a vasectomy, or if either are crazy and poking holes in the condoms; when you deal with intent, no one person is stuck with another persons judgement. Just as the act is mutual, so should be the control.
Abortion's only a hot topic because it's easy. Assuming the majority of the opposition is doing so because of their Judeo-Christian belief that you should not murder, there's much greater impact to be had in the world than trying to change abortion legislation. Lets talk about genocide, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, a few morally conservative people posturing up on the unlucky don't realize how fortunate they are.
Maringue wrote:My view on abortion is pretty simple; don't like abortions, then don't have one.
Also, the Christian thing about the sanctity of life has more holes in it that a soccer net. For instance Mississippi, the self described "safest state to be an unborn child in" is also the most unsafe state to be a born child in. They rank dead last in infant mortality rates: http://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/resources/4129.pdf
Also, the same people who use the sanctity of life argument will often talk about needing to bomb the terrorists, Iranians, ect... or how we shouldn't have universal health care in the very next breath. Apparently they only give a shit about unborn life. Once you fall out of that vagina, you're on your on bucko.
I personally think that Roe v Wade should be struck down. I'm very liberal, so I'll explain my rational. As of now, it's already almost impossible to get an abortion in anti-abortion states like the Dakotas, Mississippi or Kentucky. Why, because in most of these states there is only a single clinic that performs abortions so by either having to travel too far or wait too long there are defacto prevented from this service. Once Roe v Wade is struck down, then each state can do whatever the fuck it wants to. States that have made it defacto impossible to get an abortion will make it illegal and the rest of the states will let it remain legal.
This will have several consequences, but a major positive one will be that abortion will cease to be a national issue. Sure, uber conservatives will find some other bullshit cause to rally around, but none will have the same punch as abortion when it comes to rallying their base. I won't have to listen to the endless fucking pointless debates over whether Federal funding might in some way be going to pay for abortions. We might actually be able to get to some of the important issues facing this country instead of constantly talking about fucking sideshows as a distraction.
Oh, and if a Republican wins the presidential election I'm fucking moving to Korea with my girlfriend because this country will be fucked beyond repair.
Also:
Failhorse wrote:Not my business. But it's apart of the big 3 for Republicans. Need to get your base moving, guns god and gays. More important than jobs bills.
But if they dont' want governement money for abortion. I should be able to tell the gov't I don't want money going to war, nukes, or wallstreet.
Also girl with dragon tattoo poster. Totally NSFW
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Harri wrote:Maringue- I don't like either parties (Republican/ Democrat). In my opinion they look the same. I think examining the candidate(s) individually, instead of by their party, will be the most successful way of determining eligibility for Presidency. But, I'm sure glad I have a joint citizenship. I can and will move if I see things going south for the so called "free" country.
Harri wrote:Boo. I really can't argue with either of you.
I agree. I hate that abortion is such a huge topic in this country. We, of the 21st century, did not invent abortions. They have been around for centuries (longer than that). I think it is a perfectly normal operation to seek out when the odds of raising a good child are down. I don't think the moral issues behind abortions (i.e late term abortions, abortions due to retardation, abortion for birth control etc,.) are political concerns. I believe that making abortion legal is absolutely necessary; it helps prevent the medical issues behind a botched illegal abortion.
I'm not sure why we are so concerned over old news. The case I posted above has nothing to do with abortion, and everything to do with his right to free speech, and/or his right to keep the child. Jake, you have made a fine list of possibilities; all of them are almost impossible to prove. I think he's keeping it classy for all of the anti-choice Christians. If this sign is an indication of his personality, I might have lost the child and left too.
Failhorse wrote:iroquois law. Only the women could vote. And any law passed had to consider what the 7th generation, that day, would have to deal with. Ben Franklin wrote a lot about this. I suggest you research. Put 400 men in 1 room and you only find war and stupidity. As a man I understand this. America is a nation in decline. Such as the Romans. Empire we grow. Empire we die. We can't even learn from the Romans on the simplicity of building large cities below sea level.
Failhorse wrote:iroquois law. Only the women could vote. And any law passed had to consider what the 7th generation, that day, would have to deal with. Ben Franklin wrote a lot about this. I suggest you research. Put 400 men in 1 room and you only find war and stupidity. As a man I understand this. America is a nation in decline. Such as the Romans. Empire we grow. Empire we die. We can't even learn from the Romans on the simplicity of building large cities below sea level.
Jake wrote:Failhorse wrote:iroquois law. Only the women could vote. And any law passed had to consider what the 7th generation, that day, would have to deal with. Ben Franklin wrote a lot about this. I suggest you research. Put 400 men in 1 room and you only find war and stupidity. As a man I understand this. America is a nation in decline. Such as the Romans. Empire we grow. Empire we die. We can't even learn from the Romans on the simplicity of building large cities below sea level.
What I take from this isn't so much the foresight that comes with considering 7 generations of impact but the gender bias of war v. peace. For the sake of argument I'm going to call bullshit.
You take 3 people
* 1 man who's a fighter (chooses to engage)
* 1 man who runs (chooses not to choose)
* 1 woman who's a pacifist (chooses not to engage)
and confront each with a single aggressor and the only one with any chance of survival and therefor evolution is the man who fights.
The expansion and subsequent contraction of an empire mimics the oldest and most natural motion of the universe. There is no stasis-utopia.
We are in decline because that is the natural progression of things. Everyone sees failure as a negative instead of it just existing within the system. This is truly one of the problems America has, we promote thought which indicates us as far more important than we are; so when we fail we view it as a problem instead of seeing it as simply one of the things that happen.
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