18th August 2004, 11:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 19th August 2004, 12:19 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Allow me to make it clear then. I am against abortion. However, I am FOR logical arguments. To that end, I pointed out the whole debate over what word to use to call fetuses is completely pointless as it has no baring whatsoever on who is right.
About the issue of unsolicited pregnancy. I still think it's a human life we're dealing with here. The means of the creation of it, however horrible, are irrelevent to it's own future. The child has nothing to do with the criminal. Again, adoption or something, but not killing.
Now HERE'S a REAL tough question. There are the situations where a doctor must decide between the life of a mother or the fetus (or the mother or neither survives). For the former, hoenstly, I can't answer that! That's a really messed up situation life just offered! That's right up there with a murderer with a gun pointed to your children's heads ordering you to say which one the murderer should kill or they both die. How can there BE a right answer to that? Well, there is ONE right answer.... *Goku breaks in and batters the murderer to a bloody pulp and everyone that matters survives.* For the latter, if the fetus is completely beyond help, no matter what, but the mother can be saved if they just give up on the child doomed to death anyway... Well, I guess logically, I must choose the rational choice, the one who has the actual chance of survival, the mother. What a choice though.
PH, what on EARTH is up with your font? Why did you even CHANGE it?! WHY?!
Okay, the drug issue. Here's my thoughts. All addictive substances like that are filthy vices that all people would be wise to avoid. Wizards excluded, because they are magical, and it makes them look cool :D.
That said, honestly while I would rather people did not hurt themselves, I respect their right to do so to an extent. It's when they start getting to ME that's the problem. The drunkards that suddenly end up on the road for example are threatening MY life, in a VERY immediate way. There is NO justification for that! Smoking doesn't do as much damage, but it's still there, and I would rather NOT have my lungs needlessly damaged (and my various allergen sensitive face holes irritated) due to someone's little addiction. Honestly, the smokers just care about the nicoteen, so why can't they just go with the patch? I'm not saying they have to quit here! I'm just saying they should all be forced to get their fix in a way that doesn't send it into my lungs, that's all. Hey, they can draw cool flaming skull things all over the patches to make them look cool, or whatever.
Here's something that might annoy, but caffiene goes on that list of vices too. It's the least harmful really, AND the least addictive from my experience, but being a slave to a substance is never fun. Myself? I used to drink mountain dew all the time, then I stopped because I suddenly stopped liking the taste. Now I just don't even go near the stuff because, well mainly the bad taste of it totally destroyed any semblance of whatever addiction I may have had to caffeine. Now, either that substance's addictive qualities are even weaker than taste preference, or that really says something about how horrible mountain dew is, I dunno (realistically, I lean towards the former), but for some people, they have got to the point where they really DO go into a horrible mental lapse without their morning coffee. It's just such a pathetic thing to watch these people all irritable, walking around like zombies, until they get that fix. They may think they are just tired, but honestly that's way more than tired. Tired people get over it, these people are experiencing actual withdrawl symptons. How does this affect me? Well, not much really. Once they have that fix, they seem to be up and running efficiently enough. It's just the harm they are doing to themselves that freaks me out. See that sketch from Kids in the Hall where the boss guy tears his own heart out and poors coffee on it telling it to "GET BACK TO WORK!" . Well, actually that was incredibly disturbing for some reason... :D, but it was funny!
All in all, substance addiction is a very harmful thing no one should get involved in if they know what's good for them. If they want to though, it's their right to hurt themselves to a degree, just don't think it gives you the right to hurt ME! Stupid drunk drivers...
That's why whenever I envision myself acting like Sherlock Holmes (you know, that "excentric richy" fantasy we all have, you didn't? Hmm, maybe it was just the cool kids who had that dream...), I'm using a very well built bubble blowing novelty pipe :D.
About the issue of unsolicited pregnancy. I still think it's a human life we're dealing with here. The means of the creation of it, however horrible, are irrelevent to it's own future. The child has nothing to do with the criminal. Again, adoption or something, but not killing.
Now HERE'S a REAL tough question. There are the situations where a doctor must decide between the life of a mother or the fetus (or the mother or neither survives). For the former, hoenstly, I can't answer that! That's a really messed up situation life just offered! That's right up there with a murderer with a gun pointed to your children's heads ordering you to say which one the murderer should kill or they both die. How can there BE a right answer to that? Well, there is ONE right answer.... *Goku breaks in and batters the murderer to a bloody pulp and everyone that matters survives.* For the latter, if the fetus is completely beyond help, no matter what, but the mother can be saved if they just give up on the child doomed to death anyway... Well, I guess logically, I must choose the rational choice, the one who has the actual chance of survival, the mother. What a choice though.
PH, what on EARTH is up with your font? Why did you even CHANGE it?! WHY?!
Okay, the drug issue. Here's my thoughts. All addictive substances like that are filthy vices that all people would be wise to avoid. Wizards excluded, because they are magical, and it makes them look cool :D.
That said, honestly while I would rather people did not hurt themselves, I respect their right to do so to an extent. It's when they start getting to ME that's the problem. The drunkards that suddenly end up on the road for example are threatening MY life, in a VERY immediate way. There is NO justification for that! Smoking doesn't do as much damage, but it's still there, and I would rather NOT have my lungs needlessly damaged (and my various allergen sensitive face holes irritated) due to someone's little addiction. Honestly, the smokers just care about the nicoteen, so why can't they just go with the patch? I'm not saying they have to quit here! I'm just saying they should all be forced to get their fix in a way that doesn't send it into my lungs, that's all. Hey, they can draw cool flaming skull things all over the patches to make them look cool, or whatever.
Here's something that might annoy, but caffiene goes on that list of vices too. It's the least harmful really, AND the least addictive from my experience, but being a slave to a substance is never fun. Myself? I used to drink mountain dew all the time, then I stopped because I suddenly stopped liking the taste. Now I just don't even go near the stuff because, well mainly the bad taste of it totally destroyed any semblance of whatever addiction I may have had to caffeine. Now, either that substance's addictive qualities are even weaker than taste preference, or that really says something about how horrible mountain dew is, I dunno (realistically, I lean towards the former), but for some people, they have got to the point where they really DO go into a horrible mental lapse without their morning coffee. It's just such a pathetic thing to watch these people all irritable, walking around like zombies, until they get that fix. They may think they are just tired, but honestly that's way more than tired. Tired people get over it, these people are experiencing actual withdrawl symptons. How does this affect me? Well, not much really. Once they have that fix, they seem to be up and running efficiently enough. It's just the harm they are doing to themselves that freaks me out. See that sketch from Kids in the Hall where the boss guy tears his own heart out and poors coffee on it telling it to "GET BACK TO WORK!" . Well, actually that was incredibly disturbing for some reason... :D, but it was funny!
All in all, substance addiction is a very harmful thing no one should get involved in if they know what's good for them. If they want to though, it's their right to hurt themselves to a degree, just don't think it gives you the right to hurt ME! Stupid drunk drivers...
That's why whenever I envision myself acting like Sherlock Holmes (you know, that "excentric richy" fantasy we all have, you didn't? Hmm, maybe it was just the cool kids who had that dream...), I'm using a very well built bubble blowing novelty pipe :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)