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Am5n 
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Message 61 of 293 (443140)
12-23-2007 8:21 PM
Reply to: Message 58 by Taz
12-23-2007 7:43 PM


Re: My three cents
I generally ignore messages that came entirely from emotion or religious conviction rather than human reason.
http://www.amazon.com/...e-Psychology-Offender/dp/0306402688
DeviantCrimes.com is for sale | HugeDomains
If the person wasn't willing to use logic to reason through some of these problems earlier, what on Earth do you think could make them start to use logic now?
yo want logic? you want reason? ok
quote:
Serial rape is defined in the Crime Classification Manual (1992) as, " . three or more separate events, with an emotional cooling off period [between offenses] . " (p. 12). Rape is often believed to be a purely sexually motivated crime, where the offender's only objective is sexual gratification. However, this does not seem to be the case, as rape is more often motivated by the offender's need to displace anger toward, or exert power over the victim.
heres some downloads for you and nator.
DeviantCrimes.com is for sale | HugeDomains
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about victimology:
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All these links are copy and pasted from my source, therefor since I'm showing you my source will you be so kind to show me yours?
sincerely yours, Amen.
Edited by Amen., : none

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 62 of 293 (443142)
12-23-2007 8:25 PM
Reply to: Message 60 by molbiogirl
12-23-2007 8:00 PM


Avoidance issues
You didn't answer the question.
I've answered all your questions. You have, twice now, avoided mine.

“First dentistry was painless, then bicycles were chainless, and carriages were horseless, and many laws enforceless. Next cookery was fireless, telegraphy was wireless, cigars were nicotineless, and coffee caffeineless. Soon oranges were seedless, the putting green was weedless, the college boy was hatless, the proper diet -- fatless. New motor roads are dustless, the latest steel is rustless, our tennis courts are sodless, our new religion -- Godless” -Arthur Guiterman

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molbiogirl
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Message 63 of 293 (443148)
12-23-2007 8:32 PM
Reply to: Message 62 by Hyroglyphx
12-23-2007 8:25 PM


Juggs doesn't know what constitutes a "child".
I've answered all your questions. You have, twice now, avoided mine.
No.
You said:
It (a zygote) requires an ovum and a spermatozoa.
That is patently untrue.
A zygote is the result of SCNT, as well as the result of egg + sperm.
Since you seem to equate a genetic blueprint with what is to be considered "human", I suggest you answer my question:
Is an egg, which has the entire genetic blueprint via SCNT, a "child"?

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 64 of 293 (443152)
12-23-2007 8:48 PM
Reply to: Message 63 by molbiogirl
12-23-2007 8:32 PM


Re: Juggs doesn't know what constitutes a "child".
quote:
I've answered all your questions. You have, (three times) now, avoided mine.
All you have to do is answer my questions and we can continue.
This wouldn't be the only thread where you avoid large swaths of a post. You can't expect everyone to jump through your hoops while remaining unwilling to jump through anyone else's.
I also may not have, to your satisfaction, answered your question, but I have indeed answered your question. You probably just don't like the fact that I'm not so stupid to realize what you are trying to do. You forget that your reductionist argument only works if your a reductionist -- i.e. you.

“First dentistry was painless, then bicycles were chainless, and carriages were horseless, and many laws enforceless. Next cookery was fireless, telegraphy was wireless, cigars were nicotineless, and coffee caffeineless. Soon oranges were seedless, the putting green was weedless, the college boy was hatless, the proper diet -- fatless. New motor roads are dustless, the latest steel is rustless, our tennis courts are sodless, our new religion -- Godless” -Arthur Guiterman

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Taz
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Message 65 of 293 (443154)
12-23-2007 8:54 PM
Reply to: Message 61 by Am5n
12-23-2007 8:21 PM


Re: My three cents
I'm sorry, I wasn't following your conversation with Nator. What were you two talking about and what is this rape thing?

Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!

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molbiogirl
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Message 66 of 293 (443156)
12-23-2007 9:04 PM
Reply to: Message 64 by Hyroglyphx
12-23-2007 8:48 PM


Re: Juggs doesn't know what constitutes a "child".
The only question you have asked is, "Are your cells human?"
No, my cells are not "human".
MW writes:
Main Entry: human
Function: noun
Date: circa 1533
: a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens: man; broadly : hominid)
Unless of course you mean "human" as in "comes from a human".
MW writes:
Main Entry: hu·man
Function: adjective
Date: 14th century
1: of, relating to, or characteristic of humans
2: consisting of humans
3 a: having human form or attributes
b: susceptible to or representative of the sympathies and frailties of human nature
Using that definition, however, many things are "human", not just my cells.
...
You have equated "human" and "child" with "genetic blueprint".
Message 14 writes:
What precisely makes you more human than they, especially when they are genetically no different than you?
Message 57 writes:
If the mind does not reach for it, then you have to come to the stark realization that you are genetically no different from a zygote.
And the question remains:
Is an SCNT egg a "child"?
It has the entire genetic blueprint.
It develops into a zygote.
Given sufficient time, it would develop into a fetus.
You just look foolish dodging this question, Juggs.

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Silent H
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Message 67 of 293 (443173)
12-23-2007 10:33 PM
Reply to: Message 58 by Taz
12-23-2007 7:43 PM


Re: My three cents
It's bleedingly obvious that we can't force a twin to not cut off his brother's lifeline to his organs.
I think this is the only statement I'd disagree with. I'll bet if this were attempted there would be a pretty big uproar. Especially if the twins were older and both could speak.
To be honest, I might not be able to agree a twin in such a position could nix the other one, at least not later in life (which is different shortly post birth). But I'll have to work that out in time.
Your analogy to the person who got hooked up to another was easier for me to feel "good" about... even if it was a bad situation.
If you could think of a way we could construct a law that would not violate anyone's fundamental rights, please share it with me.
Yeah, I'm empty handed on that one.
Can I charge you a certain fee everytime you use this analogy?
Can a guy get his battery jumped in a cold parking lot? heheheh.

h
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." - Robert E. Howard

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 68 of 293 (443177)
12-23-2007 10:38 PM
Reply to: Message 66 by molbiogirl
12-23-2007 9:04 PM


Re: Juggs knows what constitutes a "child".
The only question you have asked is, "Are your cells human?"
No it wasn't. I asked you whether or not you could so vapidly be reduced to a collocation of cells. Is that what makes you, you? If not, then what exactly makes it any different in the zygote?
You just look foolish dodging this question, Juggs.
LOL!
THIS coming from someone who plays dodgeball everyday, all day???
I've noticed something about MB. You don't answer half the questions I ask you. So I have resolved not to respond to you until you can stop being disingenuous.
You can pretend like you're turning it around on me, but its all documented MB. Any objective observer can see who is dodging what.

“First dentistry was painless, then bicycles were chainless, and carriages were horseless, and many laws enforceless. Next cookery was fireless, telegraphy was wireless, cigars were nicotineless, and coffee caffeineless. Soon oranges were seedless, the putting green was weedless, the college boy was hatless, the proper diet -- fatless. New motor roads are dustless, the latest steel is rustless, our tennis courts are sodless, our new religion -- Godless” -Arthur Guiterman

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Silent H
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Posts: 7405
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Message 69 of 293 (443178)
12-23-2007 10:41 PM
Reply to: Message 68 by Hyroglyphx
12-23-2007 10:38 PM


Re: Juggs knows what constitutes a "child".
In the end I think you'll both have to stalemate, but I like that reduction argument you've got... and she is the one that's dodging.

h
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." - Robert E. Howard

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molbiogirl
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Posts: 1909
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Joined: 06-06-2007


Message 70 of 293 (443181)
12-23-2007 11:07 PM
Reply to: Message 68 by Hyroglyphx
12-23-2007 10:38 PM


Re: Juggs knows what constitutes a "child".
Is that what makes you, you?
Absolutely. I am the sum of my genetic input and my biochemical pathways.
And, were I to allow my genetic material to be injected into an egg, and it was allowed to develop into a zygote, that zygote would not be "human". Nor, were I to allow it to develop into a fully formed human, would it be "me".
Ready to answer the SCNT question, Juggs?

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Am5n 
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Message 71 of 293 (443185)
12-23-2007 11:27 PM


Re: Re: My three cents
Unfortunately I didn't see your warning on Amen, until I already posted. We'll see where that goes.
i dont know who said this to you taz but you replied with
I generally ignore messages that came entirely from emotion or religious conviction rather than human reason. If the person wasn't willing to use logic to reason through some of these problems earlier, what on Earth do you think could make them start to use logic now?
so I decided to show you that I indeed was never showing emotion or being emotional when posting in this OP, nor was did my messages come entirely from religious conviction. sure I might have added a couple sentences at the beginning, but guess what? my posts aren't entirely to explain the religious view, but also what you call "human reason".
My posts indeed have some reasons why I believe and consider that there is a Problem with Legalized Abortion.
My argument with nator, which I think he's trying to say that some women that arent victims of rape may have a higher level of Distress ,then that of women who have been raped. I simply suggested in my other posts and answered Ringo's Question:
How does the woman's level of distress make abortion cease to be murder?
I replied to it:
I would say the woman that has been raped, is at the maximum level of distress and should be allowed to have a abortion. But if a woman is not raped and has had unprotected sex with a man, but if there was no forceful sexual activity, she'll have a lower distress level , then that of a woman who has been raped.
nator replies:
But that might not be the case at all. some women might be very disstressed, but others might not be at "the maximum level". Who is going to be the arbiter of if she is distressed "enough"?
Some women might have become pregnant after what all of us might have called a rape but she doesn't call it that. Is it OK for her to have an abortion if she isn't as distressed as we think she should be?
Amen:
But if a woman is not raped and has had unprotected sex with a man, but if there was no forceful sexual activity, she'll have a lower distress level , then that of a woman who has been raped.
nator:
How can you possibly know this? A woman who is clinically depressed who has consentual sex and nothing forceful happened might be far, far more distressed about an unwanted pregnancy than a woman in good mental health who becomes pregnant as a result of a rape.
nator said:
Amen. You can't make blanket assumptions
So I replied with my source...
then I see your post replying to someone who says they didn't see your warning on Amen. this is your reply:
I generally ignore messages that came entirely from emotion or religious conviction rather than human reason. If the person wasn't willing to use logic to reason through some of these problems earlier, what on Earth do you think could make them start to use logic now?
just like nator I'm getting a strange feeling you both think I have no source and just go on and make blanket assumptions. I replied to you both, with my source and why I am not making blanket assumption or using my messages based entirely on emotion or religious conviction.
You think I'm not using logic and human reason? I'm supplying you with my source and if you don't want to look at it, I suggest you to stop making excuses on ignoring my posts, just because you assume I'm doing it entirely out of religious conviction or emotion.
Also I suggest nator that if you can't back up your theory on why I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to the distress level between that of a rape victim and that of a non rape victim, you should also back off, that is until you finally get something worth backing up that theory of yours.
p.s- By the way nator, those links and downloads are just 10% of my source, so if you are not satisfied, just tell me and I'll reply with all the links and downloads that support my position on the case of wither or not a rape victim is more distressed then that of a non rape victim.
sincerely yours, Amen.
Edited by Amen., : none

"He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride."
[JOB 41:34]

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Taz
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Message 72 of 293 (443200)
12-24-2007 12:29 AM
Reply to: Message 67 by Silent H
12-23-2007 10:33 PM


Re: My three cents
Silent H writes:
I think this is the only statement I'd disagree with. I'll bet if this were attempted there would be a pretty big uproar. Especially if the twins were older and both could speak.
Well, be realistic. What are we going to do? Tie him up and tell him he can't have control over his organs?
Your analogy to the person who got hooked up to another was easier for me to feel "good" about... even if it was a bad situation.
Silent H, as a philosopher, you should know that feeling good or feeling bad about something should not affect your capacity to reason. Personally, I think the whole issue sucks in that I don't feel good about any conclusion I came to using human reason. Perhaps this is why so many people are drawn away from reason and logic and rally to religion.

Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!

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Taz
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Message 73 of 293 (443203)
12-24-2007 12:32 AM
Reply to: Message 71 by Am5n
12-23-2007 11:27 PM


Re: Re: My three cents
Amen, to be fair, I think you, Ringo, and Nator are caught in your own web of emotive arguments. But don't mind me, please continue with your conversation.

Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!

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Silent H
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Joined: 12-11-2002


Message 74 of 293 (443211)
12-24-2007 1:03 AM
Reply to: Message 72 by Taz
12-24-2007 12:29 AM


Re: My three cents
Well, be realistic. What are we going to do? Tie him up and tell him he can't have control over his organs?
No, but we'd likely prevent doctors from helping in the procedure. Frankly if a siamese twin were capable of removing his or her own organs from use by the other all by them self... that'd be one amazing birth defect.
Silent H, as a philosopher, you should know that feeling good or feeling bad about something should not affect your capacity to reason. Personally, I think the whole issue sucks in that I don't feel good about any conclusion I came to using human reason. Perhaps this is why so many people are drawn away from reason and logic and rally to religion.
Well according to crash I'm not a philosopher, just a logician and ethicist (which does sound classier!)... though your point remains.
I agree it sucks, that's why said easier to feel X. You are probably right about religion. I think it is faulty for people to believe they can find moral answers within reason, and its a shame that many atheists have not understood that truth, trying to advance some bizarre notion they can find ethical truths.
There is no ethical reality. There is only the identification of one's own ethical principles; what makes one feel good for wholly irrational reasons. And then to be comfortable with those principles or try to change them if they are inconvenient.
Again, only religion has worked that angle, and cornered the market.

h
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." - Robert E. Howard

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 75 of 293 (443225)
12-24-2007 1:49 AM
Reply to: Message 69 by Silent H
12-23-2007 10:41 PM


Re: Juggs knows what constitutes a "child".
In the end I think you'll both have to stalemate
Don't most of these arguments essentially end in stalemates since either side often won't give up an inch of ground? Nothing will be immediately accomplished. You have to whittle people down, argument, after argument, after argument.
but I like that reduction argument you've got
Thanks.
Well, call me a romantic, but for some strange reason I see humans as being more than clumps of cells. I'm so unorthodox like that.
and she is the one that's dodging.
Yeah, but don't tell her that since, unbeknownst to her, she's making making my argument for me.

“First dentistry was painless, then bicycles were chainless, and carriages were horseless, and many laws enforceless. Next cookery was fireless, telegraphy was wireless, cigars were nicotineless, and coffee caffeineless. Soon oranges were seedless, the putting green was weedless, the college boy was hatless, the proper diet -- fatless. New motor roads are dustless, the latest steel is rustless, our tennis courts are sodless, our new religion -- Godless” -Arthur Guiterman

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