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"Pro-Life" Rule (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seriously, where are 99% of the life begins at conception people on the meat industry?

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 4 days ago (10 children)

If you're really being serious, then the answer is that most (or, at least, the vocal majority) of those people don't even really care about living children. I don't see that type of person generally giving any more care to a non-human being than they would a human being, and they already don't care about people other than themselves.

"Pro-life" has always been a misnomer. More honest descriptions would be "anti-choice" or "pro-forced birth."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

It's anti-woman.

The real true reason most people are against abortion isn't because they don't believe it's a necessity. It's because they are afraid that some woman won't be punished for having sex. Whether or not the fetus survives isn't the point, it's that someone has to be punished for enjoying life.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

Pro-life

In their mind, is still just breeding more cheap disposable labor

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Serious in that they should stand up for non-human animals, but in the kind of way where you also know the answer as to why 99% aren't

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago

One single HUMAN cell, everyone knows humans are above all animals

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I'm still waiting for them to stop celebrating birthdays.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Some of them explain this away with "Humans have souls, animals don't".

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (4 children)

And yet many can be up in arms about dogs & cats being eaten in some regions despite that claim

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

dogs go to dog heaven, duh
of they got souls! /s

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Apparently that soul doesn't matter when trying to prevent it from dying from preventable diseases with vaccines and nurturing it with affordable education.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Don't you know it's much more preferable for your child to die of a preventable illness than for them to get autism from vaccines which is totally a thing that happens?

/s of course

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

When I infodump for 2 hours straight I can see why they would prefer if I died /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

It's even worse. One of the contributing factors for autism is fine dust particles in pollution from fossil fuels. And the ones against vaccines are often also the ones for fossil fuels.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah but if babies were delicious we would eat them too

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is this implying you know for certain that human babies aren't? Maybe we should be a little concerned how you figured that one out

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So I ate a baby big whoop wanna fight about it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Baby Big Whoop? Damn there's a whole product line now?

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've got a modest proposal for you...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I wanted to say that but wasn't swift enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm told humans taste like pork.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Some cultures that actually have cannibalism refer to human flesh as "long pig" or similar because of the resemblance.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They are pro-birth. They are absolutely not pro-life.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think they're anti-woman.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Think? We fucking know.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (21 children)

It's racism. They think human lives are more important than other races.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It is so prevalent that this type of bigotry actually has its own name: specieism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

beat me to it (by only 11h :D)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Speciesism, but yes

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But that's different!

Honestly though, is "but it's different" a proper informal fallacy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not quite identical, but there are some that are close

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think "but it's different" is actually just special pleading:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading

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