I believe you are dodging the question and putting up a false dichotomy. An unfertilized egg is not human, it is human tissue, the same with a sperm. The have to potential to produce humans. The embryo is always human.life after conception. I am raising two children, rationality is frequently fleeting with a child. At what point do they receive your natural rights? Are you saying that as a newborn they have no rights?
I am not catholic, I'm Ok with both contraception and masturbation. I simply believe that human life begins at conception and that life is sacred. Every other choice is a slippery slope that leads to the state deciding who lives and dies.
Abortion should be illegal except in the most serious of situations - the life of the mother vs. the life of the fetus. This is a very rare occasion. It that case, the family, a judge, and a doctor should make the call. In ALL other situations, the baby should be born. Should the mother not want the baby, it should be cared for by the state until adoption. Rape and Incest cases are also very rare and are red herrings. They miss the point that the unborn human deserves the most rights as it is the most helpless and innocent of all.
Human life is precious.
I respectfully disagree. An embryo is human, is life, and is worthy of our protection,and is the penultimate innocent.
A question, tell me when, exactly, the embryo is human, and how do you know you are correct?
Do I have the Right to not have to pay for your perceived rights? I believe that life begins at germination, first cell division, and conception in mammals, just like most trained biologists say. I believe human abortion is human murder. Do I have the right to not pay for abortions even though you think you have the right to an abortion?
"The focus of their research was to determine the geophysical limits of energy extraction from the Earth's wind, disregarding such things as economic, social or environmental factors."
In other news, the Sun is hot, and the dark side of the moon is cold...
An explanation for the behavior of the California State Legislature. I though they were just insane, who would have thought they have parasites eating their brains?
Silence, pagen windows user! Go back to your multi-core, hyper-threaded godless monstrosities and do not speak ill of the closeness of the OS to the hardware at a cheap price!
I guess I don't understand your sig then. This is a serious reply and I would sincerely like your opinion on the following quotes.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
-Adam Smith
"[a] strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." Ayn Rand
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
"All issues are political[; and politics] is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia." George Orwell
"There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order." Ed Howdershelt
"Both the oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms." Aristotle
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to saintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." George Washington
In other "news", NBC filed for bankruptcy due to poor ratings, esp. at MSNBC where left-wing, ideological fanatics turned a formerly, well respected, news origination into the propaganda arm of the increasingly socialist, progressive wing of the Democratic party with low ratings that reflect how out of touch that philosophy had become in mainstream USA.
Film at 11...
Any sane person recognizes that if something always does bad, it gets replaced with something better.
Which is why we have elections and they matter. Hopefully this one will throw out these progressive, ideological, fascist idiots we have now before the US is fucked forever...
I believe the term is "Enlightened Self-Interest".
Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. If a drought strikes them, animals perish — man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish — man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them animals perish — man writes the Constitution of the United States. But one does not obtain food, safety or freedom — by instinct.
—AYN RAND
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I believe you are dodging the question and putting up a false dichotomy. An unfertilized egg is not human, it is human tissue, the same with a sperm. The have to potential to produce humans. The embryo is always human.life after conception. I am raising two children, rationality is frequently fleeting with a child. At what point do they receive your natural rights? Are you saying that as a newborn they have no rights?
I am not catholic, I'm Ok with both contraception and masturbation. I simply believe that human life begins at conception and that life is sacred. Every other choice is a slippery slope that leads to the state deciding who lives and dies.
Abortion should be illegal except in the most serious of situations - the life of the mother vs. the life of the fetus. This is a very rare occasion. It that case, the family, a judge, and a doctor should make the call. In ALL other situations, the baby should be born. Should the mother not want the baby, it should be cared for by the state until adoption. Rape and Incest cases are also very rare and are red herrings. They miss the point that the unborn human deserves the most rights as it is the most helpless and innocent of all.
Human life is precious.
I respectfully disagree. An embryo is human, is life, and is worthy of our protection ,and is the penultimate innocent.
A question, tell me when, exactly, the embryo is human, and how do you know you are correct?
Who speaks for the child? Life is simple, it is binary- alive or dead.. Explain please how I'm mistaken.
Do I have the Right to not have to pay for your perceived rights? I believe that life begins at germination, first cell division, and conception in mammals, just like most trained biologists say. I believe human abortion is human murder. Do I have the right to not pay for abortions even though you think you have the right to an abortion?
someone save me some time and tell me if I need to chuckle, chortle, LOL or LMFAO...
"Listen to me, coppertop. We don't have time for 20 questions. Right now there's only one rule... our way or the highway."
Thank you Black Mesa Team!
"The focus of their research was to determine the geophysical limits of energy extraction from the Earth's wind, disregarding such things as economic, social or environmental factors."
In other news, the Sun is hot, and the dark side of the moon is cold...
An explanation for the behavior of the California State Legislature. I though they were just insane, who would have thought they have parasites eating their brains?
Silence, pagen windows user! Go back to your multi-core, hyper-threaded godless monstrosities and do not speak ill of the closeness of the OS to the hardware at a cheap price!
I got my Raspbery Pi yesterday.
Salute Debian!
FP!
Drive them to the polls, that what the dems do...
I've been watching InTrade.com and it very interesting on all the races. You can bet on almost anything.
Silly OP, tweets are for twits...
Let's just stick to facts then:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/july-2012-ratings-cnn-continues-to-struggle_b139787
I guess I don't understand your sig then. This is a serious reply and I would sincerely like your opinion on the following quotes.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
-Adam Smith
"[a] strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
Ayn Rand
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson
"All issues are political[; and politics] is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia."
George Orwell
"There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order."
Ed Howdershelt
"Both the oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms."
Aristotle
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to saintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
George Washington
forgot a couple:
http://www.phy.davidson.edu/instrumentation/NEETS.htm
http://aggregate.org/hankd/piaee12.pdf
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596510510.do
http://www.digilentinc.com/index.cfm
http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
http://www.parallax.com/
"I'm a sophomore at a small mid western college and I never thought I would be writing about the most mind-blowing se....."
In other "news", NBC filed for bankruptcy due to poor ratings, esp. at MSNBC where left-wing, ideological fanatics turned a formerly, well respected, news origination into the propaganda arm of the increasingly socialist, progressive wing of the Democratic party with low ratings that reflect how out of touch that philosophy had become in mainstream USA.
Film at 11...
Let's see - Obama as the dreaded "BallHog", Michael Moore as "Frito", and Bill Maher as "Dildo".
Should be EPIC!
Any sane person recognizes that if something always does bad, it gets replaced with something better.
Which is why we have elections and they matter. Hopefully this one will throw out these progressive, ideological, fascist idiots we have now before the US is fucked forever...
I believe the term is "Enlightened Self-Interest".
Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. If a drought strikes them, animals perish — man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish — man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them animals perish — man writes the Constitution of the United States. But one does not obtain food, safety or freedom — by instinct.
—AYN RAND
Gold Bond Powder and I go commando... What else is there to do?
Yes, but can it make the Kessel run in 12 parsecs?