Alicorn comments on Blues, Greens and abortion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 05 March 2011 07:29:16PM *  8 points [-]

I naturally take a stance against abortion. It's easy to see why: a woman's freedom is much more important than another human's right to live.

I think this is backwards?

If you haven't already, consider reading Judith Jarvis Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion", the core thread of which intuition-pumps the reader to the following effect: even if a fetus were granted the full moral status of a conscious, innocent, adult human, it would not be impermissible for an unwilling incubator to kill it to get it out of her.

Comment author: Snowyowl 05 March 2011 08:35:17PM *  2 points [-]

I naturally take a stance against abortion. It's easy to see why: a woman's freedom is much more important than another human's right to live

Fixed, thanks.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 06 March 2011 01:22:09AM 5 points [-]

Fixed, thanks.

Um, no it's not. It currently says:

a woman's freedom is less more important than another human's right to live.

Comment author: Snowyowl 06 March 2011 01:51:39AM 1 point [-]

Oh for crying out loud. Please tell me it's fixed now.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 06 March 2011 04:17:30AM 3 points [-]

It currently says this:

I naturally take a stance against abortion. It's easy to see why: a woman's freedom is less important than another human's right to live.

So, you are a pro-life person who values life over freedom, yah?

Comment author: Snowyowl 06 March 2011 03:29:18PM 2 points [-]

Well, I was at the time I wrote the comment. I wrote it specifically to get LW's opinions on the matter. I am now pro-choice.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 06 March 2011 05:55:14PM 0 points [-]

Oh, I get it now. Thanks. All confusion cleaned up.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 05 March 2011 08:00:43PM 2 points [-]

the core thread of which intuition-pumps the reader to the following effect:

This sounds like: You should read this book, it uses dark arts to persuade you.

Comment author: Alicorn 05 March 2011 08:01:57PM *  9 points [-]

I don't think clearly-marked intuition pumps are automatically Dark Arts, although if they involve a lot of emotional language they can overlap. Thomson rambles but doesn't cheat.

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