Comments on: Oklahoma Senator Tries Out Reductio Curse https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/09/oklahoma-senator-tries-out-reductio-curse/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:28:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/09/oklahoma-senator-tries-out-reductio-curse/#comment-20187 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:28:26 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2236#comment-20187 And you know what they say about two gorillas that look at each other for more than five seconds!

]]> By: sc_42032cef73176c9867e45905c22e998c https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/09/oklahoma-senator-tries-out-reductio-curse/#comment-20186 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:23:21 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2236#comment-20186 It’s more interesting than that. The reductio should be read as a modal claim: it is an act against the rights of possible children. This then raises the question of to what extent possible children have rights that supersede or overrule the rights of actual adults. In ordinary thinking, the actual trumps the possible, but it seems to me that all arguments against abortion on the grounds of the rights of the unborn are about possible person’s rights trumping actual person’s rights.

]]> By: chrisdevries https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/09/oklahoma-senator-tries-out-reductio-curse/#comment-20185 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:50:25 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2236#comment-20185 Singalong everybody!!

Every sperm is sacred!
Every sperm is great!

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Not sure the line “every sperm is half a person” appears in the song though.

]]> By: operkins https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/09/oklahoma-senator-tries-out-reductio-curse/#comment-20184 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:57:36 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2236#comment-20184 And any failure to act by a woman such that an egg remains unfertilized is murder of a possible child.

]]> By: robb https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/09/oklahoma-senator-tries-out-reductio-curse/#comment-20183 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:30:46 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2236#comment-20183 holy shit. male teenagers that experience nocturnal emissions are going to go to jail!

]]> By: F https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/09/oklahoma-senator-tries-out-reductio-curse/#comment-20182 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:05:00 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2236#comment-20182 Suitable for framing.

]]> By: Physicalist https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/09/oklahoma-senator-tries-out-reductio-curse/#comment-20181 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:56:44 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2236#comment-20181 Even better than identical twins are fused fraternal twins that result in a single chimera like Jane. It seems that the OK folks are going to have to say that Jane is two distinct people (after all, neither of the twins died).

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