Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates

And as mentioned, at least they list their sources. Many mainstream publications don't even offer their readers that common courtesy.
That's why you should stick with authoritative sources.

I tend to stick to sources that I find are fairly reliable. Those sources usually link to material that -they- find reliable. I find Wikipedia to be good on some subjects, not on others, so I tend to use it only on subjects where I find it to be good.
 
Does a chicken or a cow get their day in court before getting slaughtered for consumption?
Is a chicken or a cow a living human?

No.

Does a chicken or a cow get their day in court before getting slaughtered for consumption? They are highly intelligent creatures, after all:

Omniscience fallacy. How do you know chickens and cows are highly intelligent?

The articles I linked to provide evidence that chickens and cows are highly intelligent.

As you point out, we don't eat human fetuses, so I would say there is more deference towards human fetuses than adult chickens or cows, but I doubt there are few if any examples where a human fetus has an intelligence that is in the same ballpark as its mother. This is why the mother's wishes on whether she wants to carry a pregnancy to term must take precedence.
I doubt that there are any mothers whose bones are as flexible as their fetuses' bones. Also, fetuses have more teeth than their mothers.

This is why the fetus' wishes on whether he wants to live or be killed must take precedence.

That would work only if people valued bone flexibility over intelligence. I think it's reasonable to assume that this isn't the case.
 
We just see things differently. As you know, I have some positions on the left as well as some on the right. So when it comes to Trump's policies on immigration or abortion, I'm pretty sure I'm on her side.
Supremacy. I get it.

If you like, you can try to explain what you mean by supremacy in this context.

Thus, I am sometimes on her good side.
One can only be on her "good side" by being similarly dishonest.

I haven't seen you present evidence that anyone is being dishonest here.
 
Fortunately, the courts disagree,
Dishonest leftists routinely turn to activist courts to throw the game in their favor.

Without examples, your assertion lacks evidence.

The U.S. Supreme court has now decided that individual U.S. states decide are to decide whether abortions should be legal or not
As it should be. But it's not because the Supreme Court says so; SCOTUS simply affirms that the States say so.

SCOTUS affirmed the opposite not too long ago in Roe vs. Wade, but I've heard the argument that Roe vs. Wade got it wrong in regards to what the constitution said and think this argument may be right. This isn't getting into what -should- be in the constitution, just what is actually in it.

Which means U.S. Citizens have the ability to vote with their feet as to what laws they want to live under.
Teachable moment: "... as to what laws under which they want to live."

That phrase sounds tortured.

Correct. Some States have the death penalty and others do not.

Glad we agree here.
 
ChatGPT has said [snip]
Nope. Either you drop ChatGPT as a reference or you use the ChatGPT output that I gave you. Pick one.

If you'd read what I wrote to the end, I think you would have been satisfied with what I said. I'll repeat it in the hopes that you read it to the end this time around:
ChatGPT has said both that dictionaries do definitions and that they don't- clearly it all depends on the questions it's asked. The one thing we can agree on is that dictionaries don't -define- words. They simply say how words -are- defined. In other words, common definitions of words that people have come up with.
 
No, I don't believe that dictionaries "own the language". I -do- believe that they offer common definitions for words,
In that case, I am just as good as any dictionary, actually better because I can recognize and avoid the errors.

You can't have it both ways. I'll stick with correct, standard usage, and you can continue to be EVASIVE. It's a win-win.

To give you an example, some people see abortion as murder or a proper subset of contract killings.
To give you an example, some people see 3 + 4 as equaling 7.

As far as I know, no well known dictionary defines abortion as murder.
As far as I know, nobody of whom I am aware claims that 3 + 4 somehow does not equal 7. not even those who aren't sure how 3 and 4 are formally defined in mathematics.
 
Dictionaries and encyclopedias, such as Wikipedia, offer common definitions for words.
Nope. They explain common usage. You don't pick up on this very quickly.

This is why I find that they are the best sources when it comes to trying to find an agreement on the definitions of words used in a discussion.
Nope. You are compelled to find that any source must be better than the individual who is forcing you to justify your killing supremacy. What you find to be "best" is simply that which facilitates your EVASION.

You can't get around math and logic, not even by denying that you understand it.
 
No, I'm not.
Yes, you most certainly are. You are deliberately being EVASIVE because you simply will not willingly display your inability to defend your indefensible position. You will EVADE and EVADE until the discussion goes away because you are obviously ashamed to be advocating for contract killings and killing supremacy.

You don't want the world knowing that you are a killing SUPREMACIST, the worst kind of human being. You look at your options, i.e. changing your position to one of standing against all contract killings, but your supremacist advocacy will not allow it. Ergo, you prefer to just remain a killing supremacist, you just don't want to advertise it.

I am insisting that we use common definitions for words.
Nope. You are insisting on EVADING, and nothing else. Anyone can tell by noticing:

1. You have not explained how a contract killing is somehow not the ordered killing of a living human by a customer who hires a professional killer to unalive said living human.

2. You have not provided a single example of an abortion that does not meet the above definition.

You probably don't recognize the above setup for a proof by negation but your killing supremacy argument loses here. It does not matter that you don't understand the logic involved, nor does your quibbling over dictionaries.
 
I never said that I support "supremacy", let alone "killing supremacy".
I don't care that you never stated what can be logically derived from what you have stated.

Another thing, in the last post, you engaged in quote box altering of the text of mine that I quoted above by adding some text in brackets that I didn't put in myself, which is in violation of Rule 16. Feel free to peruse Rule 16 yourself if you are in doubt:
Bring yourself up to speed. Note my inclusion of "FTFY" (Fixed That For You). Ask Damocles to explain that to you.

I didn't report it,
You should have. If you had, you would have received Damocles' explanation already as to how that is the acceptable way to "correct" errors in someone's quoting. I recommend you verify this ASAP.

as I think our conversations have been fairly productive, but please refrain from doing that in the future.
Roll up your sleeves and dig in. Plan on my implementation of that rhetorical device whenever it is the clearest, cleanest and most efficient manner of expressing a point. Everyone can see the "FTFY" and click on the button to instantly see your original quote in its entirety, to see exactly what was "fixed/corrected"

In any case, it appears that you agree that you are averse to using defintions for abortion found in dictionaries and encyclopedias such as Wikipedia.
I'm not even going to discuss dictionaries anymore. If you aren't going to support your killing supremacy position, I'll take that as your recognition that your position is indefensible.

This is a shame, because it implies that we may have reached be reaching an end in terms of how far we can discuss the subject of abortion.
We're supposed to be discussing contract killings, but you have done nothing but EVADE the topic like it is the plague.

Just as happened with a former friend of mine, we simply can't discuss the subject if [ I constantly EVADE by changing the topic at every turn]
FTFY. Do you now see how that works?

From the moment I asked you about your support for contract killings, you have been totally dishonest, refusing to discuss the topic and pulling the absolutely lamest excuses out of your nether orifice. It is disingenuous for you to imply that I am somehow making it difficult to "continue" a discussion in which you have never started.
 
When logic has been replaced by vitriol, we get to a place that I think Nietsche best described:
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”
I get it. I like swimming in the abyss; the water is ice cold, just how I like it. Yes, I actually do prefer wading in a the peaceful, warm waters of a caribbean beach, but I'll go down with the Titanic as well.

I'll drop you a line from the abyss and keep you posted on how the debris is scattering.
 
There you go with your "Marxism" again.
Get used to it. Marxism is global and entrenched. Much of it is behind the various supreacies that you support. It's not my problem if I am the first person to enlighten you to this.

I haven't seen you provide a shred of evidence that Wikipedia is marxist
What good would it serve to provide you with a shred of evidence? Better question: How long would it take for you to declare "I haven't seen any evidence"?

You can't see evidence, remember?

or that it can be compared in any way to drug pushers or pimps.
For someone who supposedly teaches English, you certainly should understand that one can compare and contrast anything. Let's let this be your first shred of evidence of your Marxism. A standard Marxist tactic is to advocate for evil policies championed by some infamous person, and then shouting "HOW DARE YOU compare me to [said infamous person]". It is the Marxist playbook for advocating for supremacy as you do.

Say it: "HOW DARE YOU compare me to a killing supremacist!" - and let me know how it works out for you.

I see it as a source of information.
I know you do. It's a source of Marxist supremacist propaganda and so you are obligated to rush to it like Christians rush to the Bible. It is a source of Marxist propaganda and you push it like a pimp, like a recruiter for a cult.

Agreed. Fortunatetly, there are honest people who can do the debunking.
Nope. Nobody can alter any dogma that Wikipedia staff has locked down.
 
It's the difference between someone telling you to trust that their beliefs are correct and someone telling you why they believe what they believe.
Incorrect. Honest people, such as myself, explain unambiguously how they are correct and show how one can verify. Dishonest people, on the other hand, simply provide links to error-filled websites that simply parrot the dishonesty, as if being on the internet somehow transforms dishonesty into absolute truth.
 
The articles I linked to provide evidence that chickens and cows are highly intelligent.
Irrelevant. You introduced the red herring of "intelligence" and AProudLefty introduced the red herring of "sentience", as if those are somehow measured requirements for a living human.

That would work only if people valued bone flexibility over intelligence.
Nope. It would only work if bone flexibility determined one living human's ability to kill another.
 
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