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ShardPhoenix comments on Blues, Greens and abortion - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Snowyowl 05 March 2011 07:15PM

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Comment author: ShardPhoenix 06 March 2011 11:18:52PM *  0 points [-]

"Pro-choice" and "pro-life" are both rather weasely terms, but they seem to have been selected by implicit mutual agreement between (mainstream elements of) the two sides in order to avoid reducing the debate to name-calling ("murderer" vs "opressor" etc).

Comment author: wedrifid 07 March 2011 01:08:21AM 1 point [-]

The degree to which those slogans are mainstream depends where you live and to what extent mainstream culture in your locality makes that particular ethical question the subject of huge amounts of identity-defining debate.

Comment author: MBlume 17 March 2011 07:12:40AM 0 points [-]

Indeed. I consider myself pro-convenient-fetal-death