animals kant have rights
I don't personally believe in rights at all. they're absolutely unnecessary for right behavior or a just society.
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oh my god this is why we lose all the goddamn time. why do pro choice people have to make the fucking worst arguments? this comparison is dumb for multiple reasons. viability is arbitrary and irrelevant, and most importantly could be subject to change. some people talk about the fetus technically being a parasite; that makes you sound psychotic.
there's one argument here: freedom over your own body. you shouldn't be legally forced to undergo an operation for someone else's benefit. yes even if the fetus is a person, it's viable, can feel pain, whatever. there's literally no other situation where that is even remotely legal. you can't be forced to donate an organ or blood to your own child. the only reason one is forced and one isn't is because of the general idea that men will be in one of those situations.
there's no reason to accept their framing on any of this and try to beat them in some sort of logical trap. they'll move the goalpost. they're not serious about any of this. this is and has always been about controlling the woman, and the counter therefore should be about the woman.
everything about the fetus is just bullshit. if they cared about the fetus they'd argue for its wellbeing literally at any point after the first moment of its birth but they don't. THEY DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANY BABY. why would they care about a goddamn chick? no it's always only about women. the baby stuff is a smokescreen to get you to argue mind numbingly stupid shit like this.
oh my god if I were arguing with an anti choice moron and someone "on my side" would butt in with "but we kill chicks though" I would smack them across the face. stop being weird.
Yeah, but the fetus can eventually be used for slave labor, including the production of more slaves. The male chicks are more useful being shredded for cheap slave fodder. If we generate enough value for our masters in this way, they'll let us join them. Blessed be the fruit.
be used for slave labor, including the production of more slaves.
That's the theory they had. Turns out humans don't breed that well in captivity. In practice the birth rate keeps dropping and is now way below replacement rates.
Laws preventing all forms of chick culling exist in Germany, France, and Luxembourg. Switzerland and Austria forbid shredding but allowing gasing male chicks (Austrians really love their gas chambers). There are ongoing discussions about forbidding the practice in most of Western Europe (AFAIK only the UK doesn't have ongoing discussions).
While I absolutely agree with the sentiment here, I doubt it'd convince anyone remotely "pro-life" - because one's "just a chicken", and the other's human.
I mean Christ, if you can't get them to sympathise with the life carrying the fetus, you're not gonna succeed with a random chicken's.
Yeah, I get the impression that the thing that drives most pro-lifers is religion (or their twisted interpretation thereof), not compassion. And as far as I'm aware, their religion doesn't consider animals to even have souls but rather sees them as tools for humankind to use, provided to us.
Shredding alive for... Eggs? 🤔
Edit: appreciate the replies! I actually already knew that, I think the verbage just threw me off. Poor chickies
Basically, male chicks are worthless on egg farms. They all get put into a macerator to be disposed of. The rate at which they do this is unfathomable at a single farm alone.
Male chicks are largely considered a waste-product of the poultry industry, you don't need many males to maintain the population. It's cheaper and easier to identify them once they hatch, at which point they have no economic value and so are killed.
Male chicks get shredded because they do not lay eggs.