Alicorn comments on Blues, Greens and abortion

Alicorn 5 Mar 2011 19:29 UTC
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I naturally take a stance against abortion. It’s easy to see why: a woman’s freedom is much more important than another human’s right to live.

I think this is backwards?

If you haven’t already, consider reading Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion”, the core thread of which intuition-pumps the reader to the following effect: even if a fetus were granted the full moral status of a conscious, innocent, adult human, it would not be impermissible for an unwilling incubator to kill it to get it out of her.
- Snowyowl 5 Mar 2011 20:35 UTC
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  I naturally take a stance against abortion. It’s easy to see why: a woman’s freedom is much more important than another human’s right to live
  
  Fixed, thanks.
  - Normal_Anomaly 6 Mar 2011 1:22 UTC
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    Fixed, thanks.
    
    Um, no it’s not. It currently says:
    
    a woman’s freedom is less more important than another human’s right to live.
    - Snowyowl 6 Mar 2011 1:51 UTC
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      Oh for crying out loud. Please tell me it’s fixed now.
      - Normal_Anomaly 6 Mar 2011 4:17 UTC
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        It currently says this:
        
        I naturally take a stance against abortion. It’s easy to see why: a woman’s freedom is less important than another human’s right to live.
        
        So, you are a pro-life person who values life over freedom, yah?
        Snowyowl 6 Mar 2011 15:29 UTC
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        Well, I was at the time I wrote the comment. I wrote it specifically to get LW’s opinions on the matter. I am now pro-choice.
        Normal_Anomaly 6 Mar 2011 17:55 UTC
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        Oh, I get it now. Thanks. All confusion cleaned up.
- Eugine_Nier 5 Mar 2011 20:00 UTC
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  the core thread of which intuition-pumps the reader to the following effect:
  
  This sounds like: You should read this book, it uses dark arts to persuade you.
  - Alicorn 5 Mar 2011 20:01 UTC
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    I don’t think clearly-marked intuition pumps are automatically Dark Arts, although if they involve a lot of emotional language they can overlap. Thomson rambles but doesn’t cheat.