I've seen people play Chinese Chess . . . it was by far the most boring Hallowe'en party ever.
As far as I could tell, it was pretty much like normal chess, except that all the pieces were named for animals and instead of looking (even iconically) like what they represented, they were just disks with the appropriate Chinese characters on them.
I'm sure different Chinese Chess sets are different - some might even have little statue-pieces that are easier for Occidentals to distinguish - but this one was very boring to see played.
"If G-d felt that embryos were so valuable, why does He allow so many of those valuable embryos to go to waste? Why does He allow miscarriages to happen to women who are ready and eager to have a baby? There's no free will defense to fall back on here."
More generally, if G-d feels that human life is so valuable, why does He kill people on an hourly basis?
To say that miscarriage justifies abortion, its artificial counterpart, is tantamount to saying that death justifies murder.
Personally, I am pro-choice when it comes to abortion and pro-life when it comes to murder, but your argument is simply vapid.
Further, it's not an argument against the anti-abortionists that some of them have weak/inconsistent arguments; after all, some of them don't. That's like saying that vegetarianism is stupid because some vegetarians wear leather.
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I've seen people play Chinese Chess . . . it was by far the most boring Hallowe'en party ever. As far as I could tell, it was pretty much like normal chess, except that all the pieces were named for animals and instead of looking (even iconically) like what they represented, they were just disks with the appropriate Chinese characters on them. I'm sure different Chinese Chess sets are different - some might even have little statue-pieces that are easier for Occidentals to distinguish - but this one was very boring to see played.
"If G-d felt that embryos were so valuable, why does He allow so many of those valuable embryos to go to waste? Why does He allow miscarriages to happen to women who are ready and eager to have a baby? There's no free will defense to fall back on here."
More generally, if G-d feels that human life is so valuable, why does He kill people on an hourly basis?
To say that miscarriage justifies abortion, its artificial counterpart, is tantamount to saying that death justifies murder.
Personally, I am pro-choice when it comes to abortion and pro-life when it comes to murder, but your argument is simply vapid.
Further, it's not an argument against the anti-abortionists that some of them have weak/inconsistent arguments; after all, some of them don't. That's like saying that vegetarianism is stupid because some vegetarians wear leather.