House Debates Banning Sex-Selective Abortions

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This is a weirdly fascinating thread.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Far from cultural relativism, it's utilitarianism for most of us.

That would be an infinitely worse reason to support something than cultural relativism.

Of course that's not actually the reason, is it? It's part of the uniform: an extreme position supported by people who are absolutely not extreme because said position is the one that they are supposed to have. The less actual thought involved the better.

Obviously this is a generic comment about abortion as an issue in American politics and so applies equally to both sides...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

False, I see no reason why parents shouldn't be allowed to determine what child they'd like to raise. If they don't want to have a daughter, they shouldn't be forced to come up with a different justification from the government as to why they want to have an abortion. Explain to me how this position comes from thoughtless behavior.

That wasn't exactly what I was getting at, but whatever.

Bleating about 'choice' as though that's an end to itself and magically eliminates all potential ethical problems (and this goes for every other issue that this sort of dribbly liberal idiocy is wheeled out for; which is almost everything) is thoughtless by definition. Although I don't agree with them, strong arguments for lax abortion laws do exist, but they tend not to be so utterly dependent on such a fundamentally juvenile attitude.

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Then why even use the word?

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Sorry, but that's just dross. Read it out loud to yourself.