Please, share and debate
(I tried writing the poll neutral, even though I think half of the list is delusional)

Do you believe there is a possibility of left and right to calm down and start a reasonabke debate, considering, that:

The left:
Castrates kids, approves of grooming, protests for killing babies etc

The right:
Tried an insurrection, want to kill trans people, hate minorities, want rich to be richer etc

@LukeAlmighty modern Americans are too stupid to make up but too pussy to make war, it will probably be a couple of decades of the shit you have now until anything changes. By the way, calling fetuses with no developed nervous systems “babies” is about as retarded as calling acorns “oak trees” lol

@Amikke
Although I do agree with your first half, the second is just plane whataboutism.
And it changes nothing about the fact, that it is exactly what does a right wing person see. A baby, that was murdered, because his mother couldn't be arsed to use rubber.

If you can look up pictures of aborted babies without your stomac turning inside out, you might be a psychopath. And people who see these pictures will build up rage with every single mention of a woman bragging about her right to murder even more.

(btw, I don't have a strong opinion on abortions in particular, but is is the clearest example of behavior, that left is willing to ignore just how demonic they sound when they talk about it.)

@LukeAlmighty yeah, that’s what a right-wing person sees because they refuse to consider the matter further than “monkey brain see little monkey, monkey brain mad little monkey dead”. It’s perfectly understandable, it’s our basic instinct after all, but with our understanding of nervous system and fetus development it’s not a reasonable stance for enforcing the “protection” of such not-yet-developed fetuses and sacrificing the wellbeing of perfectly good adult humans in the process. It’s not really a matter of discussion, it’s a matter of education and fucking off other people’s reproductive decisions.

@Amikke @LukeAlmighty Any adult who doesn't want children, yet manages to get them cannot possibly be called "perfectly good".

Exemptions can be made for cases of rape and so on.

@Jens_Rasmussen @Amikke
The best argument for abortion rights is:
Would you seriously want the kid to live with such a person?

But this argument is rarely being used for some reason.

@LukeAlmighty @Amikke The easy counter-argument is simply "I'd rather that than let the child die".
@LukeAlmighty @Amikke I know, and the counterargument I presented; that the child whould be better off with an awful parent than dead, would be an easy counterargument against abortion, if your reasoning for allowing abortion is "children growing up with bad parents are why we need abortion".

@Jens_Rasmussen @LukeAlmighty oh, I whole-heartedly disagree. I’ve gotten to know many “unwanted children”, some of which went through an orphanage and some simply had to grow up with parents that don’t love them and blame them for ruining their lives simply by being accidentally conceived. Most were mad they had to be born to such situation, some committed or at least attempted suicide before even reaching adult age. Nearly all support the right to (early) abortion, reasoning it can prevent such situations by literally aborting the fetus before it can start to feel or think.

Abortion is most definitely morally preferable over forcing a child to be born unwanted. And that’s only considering the child’s perspective, if we add the parents and the effects of such situations on the society around them, the case for abortion becomes crystal clear.

@Amikke @Jens_Rasmussen
So,
Why did you begin this debate by arguing for the "mother's right to be murderer"?

Or even by talking about "educating people, that the thing is not human"?

@LukeAlmighty @Jens_Rasmussen yeah, I chose the ending poorly, my bad, “my body my choice” is a supremely shitty argument without first establishing that it’s not actual murder we’re talking about.

The main conflict point between pro-choice and “"”pro-life””” is not some feminist bullshit, it’s the core misunderstanding where one side treats early fetuses as full-blown humans (or “babies” as you phrased), while the other treats them as the mindless human seeds that can develop into babies if given the chance.

@Amikke @Jens_Rasmussen
Yes, that is the textbook explanation.
But that is also exactly, why I wrote the original question.

More precisely: How do you live in a society with people who love killing babies? Is it even possible for such a society not to turn into a bloody warzone?

@LukeAlmighty @Jens_Rasmussen nobody pro-choice “loves killing babies”, I’m not sure from what alternative reality you got that assumption from, but it’s certainly not the one I live in.

@LukeAlmighty @Jens_Rasmussen a rubber has what, 97% success rate? Do you realise what that means on the scale of an entire society? Or do you just pretend that it’s an infallible solution?

@Amikke @Jens_Rasmussen
I am saying, that it's better then: "I took the pill, trust me dude"
Followed by:
"He run away, cause I tried to baby trap him. Well, time to kill this thing I guess"

@Amikke @Jens_Rasmussen
Also, an effectively of a rubber is NOT what the entire discussion is about, since we're getting into the "What about failure/rape" category.

@LukeAlmighty @Jens_Rasmussen failure of an actual contraceptive is the primary reason for the right to abortion (besides the rape / heavy disorder ones), nobody just has unprotected sex and uses abortion instead of a contraceptive. Shit’s expensive, awkward and hormonally devastating, it’s treated as a last resort.

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@Amikke @Jens_Rasmussen
Btw,I said before, that abortion is not of great importance to me. It is a tragic procedure, that is being marketed incorrectly, but it has many POTENTIAL benefits. I even believe, there would be no debate, if abortion supporters didn't try to banalize the issue by calling the murdered kid a "clump of cells", but the disrespect of dead person escalates the tension exponentially.

But what do you think of sterilizing young people based on a short phase of confusion?

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