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0 pointswonnage3y ago0 comments

It's not "largely a question of axioms" and no amount of confidently assert-while-questioning will make it so

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KMag3y ago

Personhood simply isn't a scientific question. There's no objective scientific criteria for personhood.

Maybe it's purely a legal question, but that's a problem given the current makeup of the Supreme Court.

If it's not scientific, not legal, and not axiomatic, then what is it?

I'd argue mostly emotional, us projecting our different emotional experiences on each other and wanting them to feel how we feel regarding the same things.

I also believe it has scientific and legal and axiomatic components, just feel quite confident it has to do more with the fear, anger, guilt, shame, and other emotions we feel and attach to things.

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albntomat03y ago

How else would you describe the different views of each side regarding the moral worth of a fetus?

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