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It's official in the print edition of today's Times. Not only is 'The Rage of Party' a @thetimes book of the year, it is *the* history book of the year.
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Capel Lofft
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Capel Lofft
@CapelLofft
✝️ 'Two Bottle Orthodox'. 'Alienated Tory radical denouncing liberal capitalism'. Author of 'The Rage of Party: How Whig versus Tory Made Modern Britain'.
Cambridgeshire Katılım Ocak 2018
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The problem with secular liberals is they see all religious displays as interchangeable. They don’t have the right lens, the spiritual rooting, the historical knowledge, or even the cultural familiarity with other religious traditions to perceive nuances in sentiment & symbolism.
Paul Nowak@nowak_paul
I’m not religious but I have friends, colleagues and neighbours of all faiths and none. To call a public display of Muslim prayer an act of ‘domination and division’ is dog whistle politics. Pure and simple. independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/…
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"On a huge hill,
Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and he that will
Reach her, about must and about must go,
And what the hill’s suddenness resists, win so."
Donne, Satire III
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I spent almost 40 years of my life campaigning for the Labour Party. This year will mark the 100th anniversary of the General Strike, when my grandmother as a 14 year old factory worker went on strike. I despise what Labour has become. Bourgeois baby killers.
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You have to be sick in the head to be proud of legalising infanticide. I was born 10-12 weeks prematurely in 1971. My mum was told I would die in the incubator, or be stunted and handicapped. Though blind in 1 eye, I am six foot one, a Professor at Cambridge, and glad to be alive
Ayesha Hazarika@ayeshahazarika
Proud to have put my name to this important amendment to Clause 208 which seeks to decriminalise women who have abortions & have just spoken in the debate currently underway in the House of Lords.
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'Where there is danger, that which will save us also grows'
Friedrich Hölderlin
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@si_rubinstein All of that said, you're not wrong exactly. It's just a bit more complicated.
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@si_rubinstein Protestantism itself is/was a highly variegated phenomenon, not some homogenous blob. And in any case, one can hardly claim that the 1000 years of Christianity pre-Reformation left no trace on our culture. Not to mention that Protestants & Catholics both profess the same religion
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'Christian values' is as much a fudge as 'Judeo-Christian values'. Britain is a country built on Protestantism.
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani
“Judeo-Christian” isn’t real. It’s a foreign policy term by people who want to put Israel first and don’t view religion as an expression of the sacred. Britain is a country built on Christian beliefs and values, certainly.
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@oldishbird1 There is no meaningful moral difference between a 39 week old baby that is in the womb and one that, minutes later, is not in the womb. They are a human at a level of development able to survive outside the womb. So it is homicide in every meaningful and substantial sense
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My q for those who support decriminalising late term abortion: If you support decriminalising the homicide of a full term baby in the womb when the perpetrator is in a 'desperate state', then why not minutes later when the baby is born? Why not 6 months later - or 3 years later?
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@feeflefifski So in this argument a life dependent on another for survival is not a life worth preserving. Also an argument for infanticide, murdering severely disabled people, and murdering the infirm and sick
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@CapelLofft If I've understood the argument made by some: we should accept that women have absolute, unconditional body autonomy, incl. the abortion of a baby at any time while it lives only through its mother (i.e. in the womb via the placenta). This doesn't apply after she gives birth.
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@feeflefifski Nobody has complete bodily autonomy, and if you are literally carrying another human being in your womb, you have another moral actor within your body to consider: your autonomy is by definition qualified. Hence why getting regularly drunk while pregnant is not a good idea
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@CapelLofft In a nutshell: women either have complete body autonomy or they don't.
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@DavidBertram1 Indeed. I tried to amend the framework, or how I saw the framework, for ages. It can be a slow process as we have emotional commitments etc. But in the end it snaps.
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When I get cognitive dissonance - when I can't fit things I know to be true into my mental framework - I try to amend the framework. Or if the dissonance reaches a certain point, I discard the framework. I do not ignore the truths to defend the framework at all costs
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I can't help observing that in an age where political/ideological identity has become so central, the tendency to defend the framework that underpins that identity at any cost, no matter how much cognitive dissonance it involves, seems to be ever more dominant
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@CapelLofft In addition those other than the woman procuring such a self induced term abortion although still committing a criminal offence will not be charged ever as no police investigation will take place. The whole thing is disingenuously passed with no manifesto mandate or public debate
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@CapelLofft Minutes later post partum though technically still a crime will be impossible to prove as infanticide rather than term abortion of a 39wk fetus & no police will investigate anyway so it is now also effectively decriminalised by the new law
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@AlexGlaucon Once a principle as been accepted, extending its logic becomes ever harder to argue against.
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@CapelLofft I think slippery slope arguments are misleading, if it you are saying the slope slopes down. Slippery slopes typically slope up. Further change requires more work, new coalitions, and may never happen at all.
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The idea that someone should not be considered criminally responsible for killing a human being if they are in 'desperate' circumstances is odd. We have a concept of diminished responsibility on mental grounds. But we don't decriminalise murder in any other case.
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If so, please consider the possibility that progressive ideological dogma, with its talk of 'abortion as healthcare', has made you lose your basic moral sense and endorse the unthinkable horror of killing babies. Consider the possibility that such an ideology is itself horrific
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The only answer is 'you still feel the moral taboo against post-birth infanticide but the fact that your political ideology has numbed you to the fate of the baby in the womb means you don't see even a full term baby that could survive outside the womb as a human being'
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