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Reptar

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Posted: 02-27-08 20:19pm

Abortions are legitimate as well, aren't they? But they back up lies too! The "lie" that a mothers choice is more important than an fetus.

Your lie was that a 8 week fetus is "much" bigger than a pea, when in fact it is not. Therefore, you lied and are a liar.

But let's play the dictionary game, since you want to so badly. I noticed you took the 5th or 8th definition for some of your words. So let's go:

A baby is also:
A young or newly born animal. - Gee, we kill those all the time. Those poor babies!!
The youngest member of a family or group. - The youngest member could be a 30 year old child molester or rapist. Guess he shouldn't receive the death penalty (where available) nor should he be imprisoned, since he certainly does fit the definition of a "baby" and we definitely don't imprison those!
A young woman or person with whom one is having a romantic relationship - Those could be mass murderers as well.

All from the aforementioned dictionary, and I haven't even got started on all those ones you went to. And I'm not going to bother wasting my time looking up all the definitions of "child". If you're going to take the dictionary definition of every word, you should start applying your ridiculous beliefs to every definition.

I'd go as far as to say Hitler was a childish person. He still deserved the death penalty (if he wasn't so childish as to off himself beforehand).
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Posted: 02-28-08 00:02am

It's not a lie. The woman's choice IS more important than the life of the undeveloped human. It COULD be this, it COULD be that. She IS a woman NOW. That's what's important to me.
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Reptar

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Posted: 02-28-08 00:25am

I KNOW. I'm making a point, and I'm PRO-CHOICE if you didn't read the rest of my post. I was playing along with his little delusions and making a point that he couldn't refute because he'd agree with it.
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Posted: 02-28-08 08:38am

Sorry; I was tired last night. Take my post to be agreeing with you as well, as an addendum heh.
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Reptar

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Posted: 02-28-08 10:20am

Haha, that's fine. I figured you couldn't actually be upset if you would of realized it was sarcasm Smile
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yodavater

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Posted: 02-29-08 15:59pm

Reptar wrote:

Your lie was that a 8 week fetus is "much" bigger than a pea, when in fact it is not.

"Much" is a relative word, isn't it? Medical websites generally list the size of a Carnegie Stage 19 human fetus at between 13 and 20 mm, which is around 3/8th of an inch. So there's a lot of variation.

But my question to you is: so what? What has size to do with morality?

Reptar wrote:

I noticed you took the 5th or 8th definition for some of your words.

Yes, that's right. Again, so what? Do you disqualify definitions after a certain number, or what?


Reptar wrote:

If you're going to take the dictionary definition of every word, you should start applying your ridiculous beliefs to every definition.

You seem a bit confused. Nowhere did I allege that a human fetus fit every single definition of "baby", indeed there would be something wrong with a dictionary that published multiple definitions that all said the same thing.

No, my contention is simply that it's incorrect to say that a fetus "is not a baby". And I believe I have proven that statement incorrect by posting at least a single definition from various dictionaries that validate that usage.
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yodavater

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Posted: 02-29-08 16:01pm

Reptar wrote:

I was playing along with his little delusions and making a point that he couldn't refute because he'd agree with it.

Wow.... that's novel... I never had anyone "play along with my little delusions" before. Weird stuff....

But yes, it's true.. I do consider the life of an innocent baby more important that the right of it's mother to electively kill it. And I probably always will.
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Posted: 02-29-08 19:03pm

yodavater wrote:


But my question to you is: so what? What has size to do with morality?



Exactly. When you have an abortion you are going to kill someone's life. The development stage doesn't change the fact that you are taking away that life.

Yoda we could argue with pro-choicers all life. To them the life of the fetus is only valuable if they want it. If they don't then the little bean life means nothing and yeah it could be killed why not. But if it is wanted the little bean life means everything and god forbid somebody wants to kill it. So it's all about the "wanting" or "not wanting". Pretty sad. This gal who was writting in other board asking if abortion would be a good idea for her. Should I let it live or not? How sad it is that humans just question whether to let live or die their own baby's life.
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yodavater

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Posted: 03-02-08 16:26pm

nightangel73 wrote:

Yoda we could argue with pro-choicers all life. To them the life of the fetus is only valuable if they want it. If they don't then the little bean life means nothing and yeah it could be killed why not. But if it is wanted the little bean life means everything and god forbid somebody wants to kill it. So it's all about the "wanting" or "not wanting".

Really, it's all about "what I want".... as in "it's my property".

And that's even sadder.
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Posted: 03-02-08 16:49pm

Versus "what you want", of course, which is even worse.
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yodavater

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Posted: 03-02-08 17:01pm

Birch wrote:
Versus "what you want", of course, which is even worse.

Except that..... "what I want" does not involve the taking of an innocent life.

But I'm almost sure that makes no difference to you, does it?
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Posted: 03-02-08 17:06pm

yodavater wrote:
Birch wrote:
Versus "what you want", of course, which is even worse.

Except that..... "what I want" does not involve the taking of an innocent life.

But I'm almost sure that makes no difference to you, does it?


Yes, what you want makes no difference to me.
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yodavater

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Posted: 03-02-08 17:12pm

Birch wrote:
yodavater wrote:
Birch wrote:
Versus "what you want", of course, which is even worse.

Except that..... "what I want" does not involve the taking of an innocent life.
But I'm almost sure that makes no difference to you, does it?

Yes, what you want makes no difference to me.

Nor the slight detail of the taking of innocent life, I presume?
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Posted: 03-02-08 17:16pm

yodavater wrote:
Birch wrote:
yodavater wrote:
Birch wrote:
Versus "what you want", of course, which is even worse.

Except that..... "what I want" does not involve the taking of an innocent life.
But I'm almost sure that makes no difference to you, does it?

Yes, what you want makes no difference to me.

Nor the slight detail of the taking of innocent life, I presume?


Don't set up one of your little strawman games with me, buckaroo. You'll be down faster than a billygoat on Mt. Kilimanjaro in an ice storm.

Laughing
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yodavater

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Posted: 03-03-08 08:31am

Birch wrote:

Don't set up one of your little strawman games with me,

Is that your way of avoiding a question, without answering it?
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Birch

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Posted: 03-03-08 12:02pm

yodavater wrote:
Birch wrote:

Don't set up one of your little strawman games with me,

Is that your way of avoiding a question, without answering it?


It's my way of keeping my head out of the the exhaustive, conservative-style tactics which you employ.

I have enough balls to answer your question, but I'm not interested.
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yodavater

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Posted: 03-08-08 09:53am

Birch wrote:

It's my way of keeping my head out of the the exhaustive, conservative-style tactics which you employ.

"Conservative-style tactics"? What an interesting phrase... since I'm neither conservative nor a tactician. But I suppose it will suffice as a diversion from the subject.

Birch wrote:

I have enough balls to answer your question, but I'm not interested.

And yet....... interested enough to comment on your "balls".
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Birch

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Posted: 03-08-08 11:25am

There are nice photography forums on the internet. Maybe you should check those out?
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yodavater

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Posted: 03-10-08 09:29am

Birch wrote:
There are nice photography forums on the internet. Maybe you should check those out?

Been there, done that. Nice photos, but I just can't speak out for unborn babies there.
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Tylanas

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Posted: 03-10-08 10:58am

yodavater wrote:
Birch wrote:
There are nice photography forums on the internet. Maybe you should check those out?

Been there, done that. Nice photos, but I just can't speak out for unborn babies there.

That would be the point. You're not doing a good job of it here, so why bother?
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