TheSanSabaSongbird

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[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 1 points 11 months ago

You don't understand basic game theory.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I reject the premise that being pro-life is about a moral conviction regarding the sanctity of life. If that is in fact the moral underpinning that informs the pro-life position, then we would expect to see a similar consistency with regard to all other issues relating to the protection of human life, but we don't.

What it's really about is controlling women and maintaining a hierarchy by ensuring that sex without reproductive consequences is impossible.

Pro-lifers tell themselves that it's about the sanctity of life because by the rules of cognitive dissonance they have to rationalize a way to see themselves as the good guys, but again, all of that is belied by the fact that they don't seem to believe in the primacy of human life in any other context.

Unfortunately, this kind of cognitive trick is a very human and very common thing. We all do it to one extent or another.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the final refuge for tankies. That and the old "social democracy only works by exploiting the global south" canard.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wikipedia is kind of wrong in the sense that there's always been Palestinian Jews.

The issue is that due to Zionism, a ton of European Jews moved into the region starting at the turn of the last century and accelerating following the Holocaust.

Said Jews then set about building a thriving western-style industrialized democracy that was opposed at every turn by an Arab and Islamic population that opposed its very existence on what can only be thought of as religious grounds.

All of which can only be taken as an indication of how deeply corrupting and counter-progressive are virtually all forms of institutionalized organized religion.

Fuck all of them. Organized religion sucks ass and should rightly be seen as a vestige of the past.

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