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Originally posted by TaiChiBob
Isolationism doesn't work in harmony with others and is therefore detrimental to society as a whole
I'm not sure if you're using this word in a vague sense, or according to the specific meaning it has in politics. Isolationism specifically means non-interventionist foreign policy. While some people certainly advocate the contrary, there's no reason a priori why a non-interventionist foreign policy "doesn't work in harmony with others." (and indeed, you seem to be advocating a non-interventionist foreign policy, so it would be peculiar if you believed that)
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What i advocate is a world community
Me too.
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Going back to my definition of "viable" and your agreed concept of such, it is misleading to phrase it as though i advocate the killing of "people"
Please note I did not agree that viability was the measure of personhood. I simply demonstrated that even if I agreed to that position, your (the pro-choice) argument still wouldn't follow.
Similarly, if we are to accept viability as the measure of personhood, then indeed it is not misleading for me to characterize abortion as "the killing of people", because viable children are aborted.
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if you twist the phrase and add your own deceptive phrasing it does sound abhorrent
Unless I changed the meaning of what you wrote when I rephrased it, the abhorrence was merely clarified by my rephrasing, not created.
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if you apply reason, compassion and common-sense, it seems less abhorrent
I disagree. Giving the state the power to murder people who do not fit into its socioeconomic model is abhorrent no matter how great the "reason, compassion and common-sense" you imagine the state will use in this endeavor.
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Do you advocate burdening the already struggling system with even more unwanted births, considering that the choice to abort is prior to viability.. ?
Yes. I have not met many people who sincerely wished they had never lived, even though I have met a great many people who both resulted from "unwanted pregnancies" and who "burdened the state." No one has the right to kill those people: their right to life trumps someone else's economic and personal burdens.
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Is it a state responsibility to force a pregnancy to term when the parent(s) would choose otherwise?
This isn't a possibility: pregnancies aren't "forced to term", they progress pretty good on their own. The possible intervention a state can make is to kill the child. And indeed I oppose that.
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the pro-life faction asserts that there is no valid reason to abort a pregnency
You're laboring under a misapprehension. Consider the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003", greatly endorsed by the pro-life and opposed by the pro-choice factions - completely and only concerns the issue of viable fetuses.
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i do not advocate the abortion of a viable fetus
If you oppose the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003" and other pro-life initiatives, ie. if you support the pro-choice faction, then clearly you do. Perhaps you were simply not aware of how the two factions actually approached the issue of viability? If so, then I sincerely hope you will hold to this claim and become pro-life. :) All that is necessary for evil to succeed is
that good men do nothing, eh?