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How To Be An Existentialist

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Benjamin@BenjBenAvraham·
Yn wir, I am ashamed of my Alma Mater Prifysgol Bangor today. The glory of our Western civilisation lay in hearing opinions we disagree with, rather than priggish silos of conformity. Cywilydd, @BangorUni
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How To Be An Existentialist@garycox01·
'Anxiety is the vertigo of freedom', not a mental health condition. Stop telling young people they are ill if they feel anxiety. Deal with it, ideally learn to embrace it.
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@Chuz_Life @Docstockk Of course it's of value to them but that does not necessarily make it of moral value in itself? I agree a human zygote is a human being but is it yet in any way a person, a being with morally relevant characteristics? It's a potential person, therefore not yet an actual person.
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Chuz_Life@Chuz_Life·
@garycox01 @Docstockk To You or to an idiot, maybe. If a couple spends $50K just TRYING to conceive a child and they finally conceive. . . Let me know when you can convince them that their newly conceived child is morally worth-LESS because it has yet to live long enough and develop past your denials
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How To Be An Existentialist@garycox01·
@NathanNobis @Docstockk I'll take a look at that. A while since I wrote about these issues. I chose abortion & animal rights as topics for the applied ethics chapter of #HowToBeGood, an intro to ethics and being ethical. Along with euthanasia they are often taught together as rights to life and death.
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How To Be An Existentialist@garycox01·
@NathanNobis @Docstockk I take back the word 'complex'. I think I just had in mind the 'tricky' position people are placed in when the idea of non human persons exposes their moral inconsistencies. Singer mentions pro-lifers who happily eat steak for example.
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@NathanNobis @Docstockk Singer's human/person distinction simplifies the abortion issue. It shortcuts pro life and pro choice, making it all about the personhood moral relevance of the fetus at x age as compared with that of the mother. Factoring personhood kind of makes animal rights more complex.
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@BioethicsUK @Docstockk Limited of course, far less of a person than a pig, but some capacity to feel and suffer, which is why 24 weeks is often the line. I was influenced by Singer's distinction between human and person, moral relevance pertaining to personhood not species membership.
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