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I killed part of myself by cutting my nails. They're cells too, I should be executed!
This is a straw man, nails are obviously dead. If you want to cut off your finger, however, that's your right. If you cut off your child's, you should be tossed in jail.
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In which case it's very simple: Is a fetus/embryo a baby or not? And what is the logical conclusion of that?
The viability standard of Roe v Wade is not about personhood but about physical dependency. In other words, it’s not murder, and is ethical, to pull the plug on someone who’s hooked to your body to survive, if there is no other way to save them. This is a very enlightened stance imo, and inductively implies abortion will one day be both illegal and in low demand.
This is not a political discussion site. Please don't submit stories like this. They just provide yet another anonymous place for people to argue and talk past each other.
"Looking at the abortion law, or the gun law, or the voting law, it's a form of vigilante justice, where you're empowering individuals to enforce the law," said Tyson Tuttle, the CEO of Austin-based Silicon Laboratories (SLAB.O). "It's been a rough week in Texas and a harbinger of what's to come across the country." I'm from across the pond, and have spent limited time in the US - none of it in Texas - but I always t…
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Or it would be simple, if it wasn't split 50/50. Funny how no one cares they're murdering billions of baby fish by eating pregnant fish and caviar.
Well, nobody thinks they "murder a cow" to eat a steak even though we kill animals for food. Though this is the case that we kill animals, it doesn't really cross most people's minds. I've killed, dressed, broken down, cooked, and eaten animals plenty of times and am unbothered. Different rules for animals; I don't have a problem with killing them, though don't do so needlessly.
"Looking at the abortion law, or the gun law, or the voting law, it's a form of vigilante justice, where you're empowering individuals to enforce the law," said Tyson Tuttle, the CEO of Austin-based Silicon Laboratories (SLAB.O). "It's been a rough week in Texas and a harbinger of what's to come across the country." I'm from across the pond, and have spent limited time in the US - none of it in Texas - but I always t…
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America is a huge country and we've been discovering over the last decade that we are a lot more divided than we realized. It's like combining France, Germany, England, Spain and Italy into one country and expecting them to agree on everything. Luckily in America we can just move to a state where reasonable people run things.
Strangely, all of those countries agree on important societal issues.
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> supposedly restrictive voting laws do not generally have more restrictions than blue states such as New York Can you give any examples to support this? We have no ID requirement, no questions asked mail-in ballots, early voting, and paper ballots. The Texas law isn’t all bad. Recording vote counting, paper trails and regulating the removal of voters from rolls is good policy. But the restrictions on early voting an…
What about vaccine passports?
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Strangely, all of those countries agree on important societal issues.
cough Brexit cough
I bet my life it wouldn't have happened if the UK gov implemented the same workers protections and immigration rules as Germany, for example.
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The GOP knows the only way they can keep power in Florida and Texas is by making sure people don’t move there unless they’re super conservative, hence all those stupid laws. The housing crisis in a lot of blue states has made a lot of middle class folks move to those states. Their electorate is mostly non-Hispanic white, non-immigrant and older and their numbers will continue to dwindle over time.
This doesn’t seem recognizable to me. Do you live in Texas? (Yeah, parent comment has changed.)
A large factor is immigrants that went through the tedious years long drudgery that is the legal process for US citizenship being really pissed at the fact some may not have to go through the aforementioned like they did - misery loves company or something like that.
Another is that these immigrants and minorities are typically fairly uneducated and truly believe the man with the golden shitter is actually like them and is going to help them.
And some of it is trying to fit in with the preexisting community. If you're a brown person in a town of white religious/nationalistic fanatics that typically do not like brown people, vowing your loyalty to their guy is typically a quick way to fit in a bit better.