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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    So yes, I extend personhood to a bunch of other animals too, though not cows - they taste too good! But seriously, it boils down to the question of souls/spirits - I believe there is a categorical difference between the soul/spirit of a human/non-human primate (and one or two other animals) on...
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Hmm, an interesting analogy. Not sure I agree with the comparison, but will have to give that some thought.
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    So to your mind that trumps the foetus' potential right to their life? The body autonomy of the mother vs. the life of the foetus?
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Why do you think it might be immoral to terminate a foetus?
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    Strict Islamic dress - a question to those who wear this

    You're welcome! :)
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    Strict Islamic dress - a question to those who wear this

    What one person counts as extremist another person counts as normal. Ditto 'what one would expect'.
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    For me, all persons have the right to non-interference with their liberty, life, and property. Deliberately killing a person without due cause constitutes murder. I believe that personhood extends from conception to death (not brain death, which I don't recognise as death) of a human being...
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    I'm not saying that, I'm just saying that polls and poll findings are rarely suitably nuanced when it comes to complicated things like belief/religion. Therefore, we can't necessarily take them at face value, and certainly can't use them as the basis for making decisions about how to treat all...
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    I don't believe it is the separateness or otherwise of an entity (embryo, foetus, infant) that should determine how we should treat that entity, but rather when personhood begins, which I believe to be at conception. For me, that means that killing an embryo, foetus, or infant is equivalent...
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    I'm afraid you've lost me with your first point above. Wrt the latter, it's not so much taking people at their word as how the questions in a poll are posed and what the respondents' understandings of the questions are.
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    I guess I can't really argue with that then (though I disagree).
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Ah, that practicality rule again!
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Glad to hear it!
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Why does the mother's control of her body supersede the rights of the foetus over their body?
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    I don't think Christianity is dead here, by any means. Perhaps fewer literalists than in the US. But Christianity takes many forms, as I'm sure you know.
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    Yes, I agree it's shocking that some crimes haven't been properly investigated. These have only very limited 'jurisdiction'. Which parts of London?
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    Right. My point exactly.
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    How does that relate to my point exactly?
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    I don't see how that's relevant. Not necessarily. It depends who's doing the labelling. A Muslim country can be one by virtue of having a majority Muslim population. There's no telling whether European Muslims understand what Sharia actually is or would mean for them or whether they accept...
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Is killing an embryo or foetus murder, in your opinion?
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