I have retracted it and apologized.
However, it’s still rude and disrespectful to dismiss someone’s heartfelt beliefs by saying they are indoctrinated or brainwashed. It’s also beneath you, since it’s an incredibly lazy way of debating. You could use it for anything, like magic words. “You’re just brainwashed.” Works on absolutely anything.
I’m sorry for being a dick. Can we hug?
Quickly, before the hugging shit starts:
Well of course you don’t. And yet you manage both, regularly.
One of those irregular adjectives, innit? “I’m aggressive, you’re rude, he’s a complete prick.”
Which gives lie to your first sentence. When you decide someone is rude, all bets are off. Which is fine, I suppose, though awfully convenient. “I’m never rude, except when I’m rude.”
Not really a swipe, merely as much a statement of fact as calling myself a snarky asshole. You regularly come across as rude and disrespectful. This has been pointed out to you more than once. As long as you’re fine with it, that’s great. Just own it.
(And I have excused nothing here. I did not personally find Lobohan’s words rude or offensive, but this is the first time I’ve commented on them. Your deciding to read my comments as “excusing” Lobo’s post is entirely your own choice and not based on my actual words.)
That said, lance–and with no snarky assholery intended–I appreciate your apology above. That was well and graciously said, and we all should strive to emulate it more often.
Y’all feel free to commence with the hugging.
Well, given the number of pregnancies that spontaneously fail, I daresay the first nine months of one’s existence as a dependent multicellular entity has always been risky.
Heck, prior to modern medicine (and immunization/refrigeration/sanitation), one had to be lucky to get through the first decade of existence as an independent multicellular entity.
Fortunately, in 2016 in the post-industrial democracies, it’s not as bad as used to be.
I don’ think so. I think that when you think that, you misunderstand me. But as I said, I am rude to people I think deserve it - those being rude in the first place.
Whatever. This isn’t about me.
Okay, I’m never rude, except when it’s justified.
I am aggressive. But never rude unless someone else is. I am often misunderstood, but that’s because I think past the same old boring bullshite and challenge opinions. That’s purely intellectual and everyone here should be able to handle it, even enjoy it and dive right in, as most do.
Thanks. How about a group hug?
Oh, golly gee, maybe just a side hug. And no tongue kissing.
Homer Simpson said once to his wife, don’t worry we can just make another one.
Not a problem with that is it ?:rolleyes:
This response is incoherent and pointless. Are you trying to somehow equate (comedic, fictional) callous indifference toward the death of an actual child with support for a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy, which involves the destruction of a minuscule clump of cells that is not the same thing as an actual child?
Because if you are, your argument makes pretty much zero sense.
I’m not wearing myself out having sex all the time, just to feed that damn alligator.
This is what I wonder about. I hear a lot about people who think life starts at conception and that’s why abortion should be legal, but I have never heard those people mourning the hundreds of thousands of babies who die from miscarriage each year in the US. In those cases there’s not an evil abortion doctor or misled woman to blame, but otherwise the death should be just as tragic to pro-life people. The Mayo Clinic says that 10-20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, but it’s likely more since many women have miscarriages before they even know they’re pregnant, they just think that they have an unusually heavy period or something that month.
If people really and truly believed that life begins at conception, I would think there’d be some equivalent to St. Jude hospital, researching how to prevent all those zygotes and embryos from dying, but I haven’t heard of such a thing.
See join date. New troll gotta troll.
How many Oklahoma taxpayers are OK with the idea of their money being wasted defending a law that’s a sure bet to be shot down in court?
Most should be pissed off on that basis alone.
Zeros are Arabic and illegal in Oklahoma.
They think it’s only going to cost a dollar.
Don’t underestimate the zeal of the pro-life/anti-abortion folks.
To the people you are talking about, THOSE kinds of miscarriages are God’s Will, and thus neither they or anyone else should do anything about them.
Heaven needs little blastocyst-angels, too!
The Oklahoma law’s supporters are actually hoping it will be challenged in the Supreme Court so the Court can overturn *Roe v. Wade.
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Why, are they doing this back in January?
I don’t understand the question.
Nor do I.