Welcome to the SDMB.
Are you playing along, or whooshing in the wind?
Welcome to the SDMB.
Are you playing along, or whooshing in the wind?
So long as they don’t fall face first onto their husbands’ penises, their innocence is protected.
What were their husbands penises doing on the keyboard in the first place?
Brilliant.
But how would we punish the onanist deviants?
I propose flogging.
So, it was wrong of me to be touching my cat’s butthole while reading this?
Hey. It is not my place to judge other people’s sexual practices. What they look at on their computers in the privacy of their own homes is their business.
Completely whooshing.
Entire civilizations have perished in my waste basket. Heaven must be quite a sticky place.
elucidator, you were truly missed. Thank you for coming back.
What do you mean, “adolescent males”?
That’s not enough. In the United States alone millions of eggs “naturally” fail to implant every year. Failure to implant is actually the leading cause of premature death in America. We should immediately cut research funding into such minor killers as cancer and heart disease (which largely affect adults, after all, not innocent BABIES) and instead devote the bulk of our medical research dollars to guaranteeing that ALL fertilized eggs are carried to term.
If there’s a fire in an in-vitro fertilization clinic, who do you carry to safety? The two-year-old who got separated from her mom? Or the petri dish with the five fertilized ova?
The OP is not only an abomination, but a festering, fermenting heap of swill.
Glad to see you’ve still got it.
I’ll see your conundrum and raise you a dilemma.
Fertilized eggs aren’t the only lives being lost. From the age of 12 or 13 young girls begin murdering children by allowing living eggs to die and pass out of their bodies. The only truly ethical behavior is for these girls to make a good faith effort each month to fertilize these eggs and allow as many of them to bear life as possible.
Well, no. Unfertilized eggs aren’t individual humans. Allowing unfertilized eggs to pass out of the body and die is no more murder than letting epithelial cells be lost while brushing one’s teeth.
But they have the potential of *becoming * individual humans.
That’s not the worst of it. Even when conception occurs, one sperm is used and millions wasted - millions of people denied the chance for life.
The OP doesn’t go far enough. It’s the potential for life that’s important, and so we must bring toegether every egg with every sperm. Otherwise, we’re all godless murderers.
But they’re not, yet, while a fertilized egg is an individual human.
But it’s just as important to protect the potential as it is an actual human, you know.
Wrong, and I can prove it! For if one form of preconceptive matter is not a baby, would not it then follow that the other form was similarly non-sacrosanct? But, we know that to be false, as is deftly argued in the OP. Therefore, by modus tolens, lost eggs are murdered babies. (Or at least, any pair of them is.)
Truly, here lies the first step down the sticky path of onanist justification. Next they’ll be telling us that nocturnal emissions are healthy and normal, when in truth you are commiting grave sin for not putting the innocent baby-halves into their proper receptacle!
Ellsworth Toohey?
None other.