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Um - this is just mine.

An Ode to Simplicity :D

I have rarely, if ever, had trouble hitting a minimum word count. I like to explain things. I like to look at things in depth and from different angles. But what I love is the simple distilled truth of something. There is elegance in brevity. (Which I don't often attain to, as you can see. :D) There is also, usually, a lot less room for deception. This is one reason I favor the pro-life position. When I see pro-abortion arguments, I typically see three pages of mental and verbal gymnastics that have to speedrun through logical fallacies and into advocating ableism, discrimination, eugenics, and more on their hasty way to explain how it's actually "compassionate" and "moral" and "forward-thinking" to murder babies. Oh, sure, there are a few tired, pseudo-pithy mottos that can be tried: "the freedom/right to choose!" and "equal rights!" and "my body, my choice!" But I or anyone can drive a truck through the plot holes in those slogans with very little effort. - For example, "Freedom/right to choose!" becomes a lot less nice-sounding when you ask, "Freedom/right to choose...what?" Because it turns out that most sane people actually have some strong opinions about giving someone else the freedom and the right to choose to murder people. - "Equal rights! Human rights!" Great! So what about the rights of the human in the womb? Ask this, and you'll watch the pro-abortion crowd either fall over themselves to deny science or to reveal that they actually don't believe in equal rights for all humans -- they instead believe in equal rights for some humans and not others, based on physical and arbitrary characteristics like size, degree of development, and location. Which is what we call "inequality" and "discrimination". - "My body, my choice!" Sure! Except it's not your body that's getting torn apart by forceps or starved of nutrients, obviously, so it's not really your choice -- you're just taking it away from the baby. Not to mention that EVERY civilized society restricts the lesser right of autonomy in the event where it infringes upon another's primary right to life. (Otherwise, have fun explaining to people why you believe there shouldn't be any laws against assault, murder, rape, drinking and driving, etc.) - BONUS: "YOU'RE KILLING WOMEN!" Um, no -- you are. Where do you think women come from? Rocks? And feel free to look it up -- there is a difference between triage, tragedy, and murder. And in no medical case is an abortion the "treatment" necessary to save the mother's life -- oftentimes, it can actually put her in even more danger. Meanwhile, while the proponents of abortion have to either write essays and essays futilely attempting to claim otherwise to maintain the moral high ground OR abandon it altogether and lean into the whole infanticide-worshipping cult thing, me and any other pro-lifer can state our position as a whole pretty simply without having to do any of those things. It goes like this: "Hi! It's wrong to murder babies. Please stop doing it."

*Mic drop* That's it. That's literally it. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. :D

Kallus: Oh no! The rebels have us surrounded and my stormtroopers have been stunned and whoops! There goes my bo-rifle! We can only hope they don’t find the vault that’s down the hall to the left— other left, my left— Oh what a terrible day this is. Good thing there’s only two minutes until reinforcements arrive. No it’s a pull. You have to push the buttons. Push the buttons and pull at the same time. There you go. I didn’t design the door Zeb!

In one of my film classes last semester we had to tell a story in 3 pictures for a mini assignment so my friend and I did this

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drizzit

Happy 10 year anniversary to this post!

literally cannot stop thinking about the return. like imagine being the sgc right? you send a group of second-bests; people that are really good at their job, but you can risk sending to another galaxy with a chance of not getting them back. and about 80% of them are people who don't really Work Well In The System. you dont hear from them for a whole year and consider them lost, and then you get an email that they need your help Right Now or they'll Die. alright whatever you send a ship and a zpm they win the battle everyones grand. using that ship you keep sending new people there, and these people know they can go home at any time. its just another rotation to them. but they start writing home and saying that the original crew are..... weird. there are interesting rules and habits and recreational activities and food. and the most weird is their connection to the actual city. you take note of these letters about the original crews Weirdness but otherwise dont really care. and then the ancients come back!! and they kick everyone out of atlantis. well, that sucks, but it was a resource sink anyway and all you really got out of it was another interstellar war you weren't prepared for. you take this as a sign you shouldnt have gone out there in the first place and carry on with your day.

except the original crew are fighting back. theyre complaining and rallying and saying its not fair and they should get to stay. what the fuck. you tell them its out of your hands and bring them home. and they're all acting like depressed little lizards, and oddly enough Elizabeth Weir - the token "normal person" you had put in charge of these outcasts - is the most depressed of the depressed little lizards, and she doesnt leave her house the entire six weeks. and the one time she does leave her house, she, her flagship team, and the fucking DOCTOR of all people steal the weird little ship and go fight the replicators to retake atlantis.

fine. whatever. they can have their city in another galaxy. its not like they ever listened to you in the first place.

We never see anti-sex and anti-choice people go after viagra. Why? Where are all the myths that it’s harmful to you, it’s big pharma trying to pervert the natural order? Where are all the rampant lies and falsehoods about its effectiveness?

Oh, right, because it’s not about that. It’s about controlling women, especially young women. It’s about putting us back into the home, preventing us from working or living outside the domestic sphere.

They don’t care about viagra, they care about all your options for reproductive choice. Birth control, abortion, IVF, surrogacy, all of that is included into their moral panic. But not men’s sexual healthcare, that’s perfectly fine. But a woman’s? Well, it’s always been about policing us.

I mean...it could be because Viagra tends not to kill a human :D :D

I know this quite old but I’m still going to respond to it:

Neither does birth control and neither does emergency contraceptive. Yet both are horrifically lie about, fear-mongered, and smeared.

I wonder why.

"Emergency contraceptive" -- or anything applied after conception -- does kill a human. That's just basic biology.

No, it doesn’t. It can’t. Pregnancy does not happen until the zygote implants into the uterus. All that emergency contraception and birth control does is hinders this process.

Nope. A unique individual human being with all information present is produced when the egg and sperm unite (to form the zygote). "Pregnancy" or "human being" as defined by "implantation into the uterus" is almost a cute dodge though. :D But it does raise some moral issues for you if you think someone's biological humanity can be conferred or taken away by physical location (i.e., uterus, fallopian tubes, outside the womb, whatever country you don't happen to like, etc.) or degree of development (infant, toddler, senior citizen, someone with mental disabilities). Just something for you to consider.

That’s so funny because if you ask literally any fucking OBGYN they will tell you with absolute certainty that a pregnancy is not happen until the zygote implants. You cannot be pregnant without that happening. And over 50% of zygotes never implant anyway, most people just flush it out during their cycle.

The fact you think me spouting actual fucking science is some fucking political ‘dodge’ is so cute and tells me everything about you.

No one is taking away ‘biological humanity’ (whatever the fuck that means) all I said was ‘unless you are pregnant, you are not pregnant’.

Also, even if fetuses could be considered people (and having human DNA ≠ person) we’d have to contend with the issue of:

Does that make it right for one person to use another person’s body against their will?

I know you’re answer :D

Since your answer actually failed to counter anything I said and perpetuated the dodge, I think I'll just repeat what I said with one small clarification: "Pregnancy" or "human being" as defined by "implantation into the uterus" is almost a cute dodge though. :D (AS IN: I'm not contending when "pregnancy" starts. I'm contending when human life begins; and science is pretty clear on that one. Conception, not implantation. You sneaked "pregnancy starts!" in there and thought I wouldn't notice the goalposts being moved. :D) But it does raise some moral issues for you if you think someone's biological humanity can be conferred or taken away by physical location (i.e., uterus, fallopian tubes, outside the womb, whatever country you don't happen to like, etc.) or degree of development (infant, toddler, senior citizen, someone with mental disabilities). Just something for you to consider.

We never see anti-sex and anti-choice people go after viagra. Why? Where are all the myths that it’s harmful to you, it’s big pharma trying to pervert the natural order? Where are all the rampant lies and falsehoods about its effectiveness?

Oh, right, because it’s not about that. It’s about controlling women, especially young women. It’s about putting us back into the home, preventing us from working or living outside the domestic sphere.

They don’t care about viagra, they care about all your options for reproductive choice. Birth control, abortion, IVF, surrogacy, all of that is included into their moral panic. But not men’s sexual healthcare, that’s perfectly fine. But a woman’s? Well, it’s always been about policing us.

I mean...it could be because Viagra tends not to kill a human :D :D

I know this quite old but I’m still going to respond to it:

Neither does birth control and neither does emergency contraceptive. Yet both are horrifically lie about, fear-mongered, and smeared.

I wonder why.

"Emergency contraceptive" -- or anything applied after conception -- does kill a human. That's just basic biology.

No, it doesn’t. It can’t. Pregnancy does not happen until the zygote implants into the uterus. All that emergency contraception and birth control does is hinders this process.

Nope. A unique individual human being with all information present is produced when the egg and sperm unite (to form the zygote). "Pregnancy" or "human being" as defined by "implantation into the uterus" is almost a cute dodge though. :D But it does raise some moral issues for you if you think someone's biological humanity can be conferred or taken away by physical location (i.e., uterus, fallopian tubes, outside the womb, whatever country you don't happen to like, etc.) or degree of development (infant, toddler, senior citizen, someone with mental disabilities). Just something for you to consider.

We never see anti-sex and anti-choice people go after viagra. Why? Where are all the myths that it’s harmful to you, it’s big pharma trying to pervert the natural order? Where are all the rampant lies and falsehoods about its effectiveness?

Oh, right, because it’s not about that. It’s about controlling women, especially young women. It’s about putting us back into the home, preventing us from working or living outside the domestic sphere.

They don’t care about viagra, they care about all your options for reproductive choice. Birth control, abortion, IVF, surrogacy, all of that is included into their moral panic. But not men’s sexual healthcare, that’s perfectly fine. But a woman’s? Well, it’s always been about policing us.

I mean...it could be because Viagra tends not to kill a human :D :D

I know this quite old but I’m still going to respond to it:

Neither does birth control and neither does emergency contraceptive. Yet both are horrifically lie about, fear-mongered, and smeared.

I wonder why.

"Emergency contraceptive" -- or anything applied after conception -- does kill a human. That's just basic biology.

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