GA lawmaker equates women with cows and pigs

[Miles]

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There are good pro-life arguments, and there are bad ones...


Edit: Wow, sorry; this is from 2012. One of my friends had this in their feed, so I assumed it was new.

[All Along The Watchtower]

I didn't even need to guess which party he's from.

EDIT: This is from March 2012...

[Joe Republic]

The outreach continues.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

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There are good pro-life arguments, and there are bad ones...


Edit: Wow, sorry; this is from 2012. One of my friends had this in their feed, so I assumed it was new.

Is it a bad argument to say that if we can value animal life, we should value human life as well?  That was his argument. 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

At least he didn't mention rape like his colleagues do.  Ugh.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

No, he didn't equate women with cows and pigs.  He's talking about how it's sad to see something not born alive.  Not the analogy I'd use, but you're making a pretty big stretch on this one.

[Miles]

Sorry I posted this

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

No embryo should be destroyed after twenty weeks (unless due to health), animal or human.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

No embryo should be destroyed after twenty weeks (unless due to health), animal or human.

At twenty weeks, it's no longer an embryo, but a fetus (at least in humans).

[free my dawg]

So everyone running for Senate in Georgia isn't monopolizing the crazy...

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

No embryo should be destroyed after twenty weeks (unless due to health), animal or human.

You're a vegetarian?

[Alcon]

I don't want to be Analogy Police (YES I DO), but Nathan is right.  This is an analogy.  An analogy compares something that's substantively alike in two otherwise unalike things.  An analogy does not "equate," or imply that the two compared things are substantively alike in all ways.  If it did, it wouldn't be an analogy.

ANALOGY POLICE OUT, BROSEPHS.

[Miles]

I don't want to be Analogy Police (YES I DO), but Nathan is right.  This is an analogy.  An analogy compares something that's substantively alike in two otherwise unalike things.  An analogy does not "equate," or imply that the two compared things are substantively alike in all ways.  If it did, it wouldn't be an analogy.

ANALOGY POLICE OUT, BROSEPHS.

Ya know, I almost used "compares" instead of "equates" for the post title.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I don't want to be Analogy Police (YES I DO), but Nathan is right.  This is an analogy.  An analogy compares something that's substantively alike in two otherwise unalike things.  An analogy does not "equate," or imply that the two compared things are substantively alike in all ways.  If it did, it wouldn't be an analogy.

ANALOGY POLICE OUT, BROSEPHS.

Ya know, I almost used "compares" instead of "equates" for the post title.

OK, well he still wasn't comparing women to cows or pigs, so that wouldn't have made it much better anyway.

[Alcon]

That's not even the big problem here, Nathan.  There's nothing offensive in "comparing" things, because comparing them doesn't equate them!  It's meant to show some significant similarity.  It's not meant to equate the two things in ways besides that similarity.  This whole "you can't compare x to y!" thing totally misunderstands the point of analogies.

This is especially bad when someone uses a reductio ad absurdum argument -- which "reduces an argument to the absurd" by showing how that argument, applied consistently, would require you to accept something absurd/terrible.  I've seen people on the Atlas use a reductio ad absurdum to show how an argument to support thing A would require someone to accept awful thing B, and then someone shoots back, "but you can't compare A and B!  B is terrible!"  No duh.  That's the idea.

The phrase "you can't compare __ and __" needs to die, because you can always compare two things.  The question is whether the comparison is accurate and meaningful.

Sorry, rant over.  It's just tough to see this behavior on a forum where we all should know better.

[Bacon King]

this man is my state representative

[All Along The Watchtower]

this man is my state representative

BACON KING 2016

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

this man is my state representative

D+1

[DrScholl]

Quick, get him to run for Senate. He'd be the perfect candidate to the hold the seats for Republicans.

[Hifly]

I am astounded as to how stupid some militant pro-choice Americans are.   
He isn't equating women with cows or pigs at all. He's using an analogy with a situation he is personally familiar with to highlight the sadness of offspring being delivered dead.

[Alcon]

I am astounded as to how stupid some militant pro-choice Americans are.   

Haha, are you suggesting this behavior of misunderstanding analogies is somehow specific to pro-choice Americans?  If not, what is the point of phrasing your sentence that way?