"Which do you hate more, Geoff: logic or women?"
I would suggest that incoherent evasion leaves the dry-foot notion pretty much where it's always been: A bright line principle derived from observable facts.
I wouldn't say that your defense of DF is necessarily
incoherent, Tiassa. It's empty, since it's based on an arbitrary stance where the fetus is a person so long as we can just see it. I assume you don't like that description, but it's hard to give your argument more than that when you just ignore my counter and go back to repeating the same old shtick.
And this emptiness is underscored below:
Any line one wishes to draw on abortion access before that time must eventually get around to resolving this conflict of one "person" asserting rights within and over another person's body. That's the point of it. All of this come-lately fake indignance arises on the heels of a fifteen-month discussion in which the policy advocates refused to address the question.
First, I don't know why you keep citing this other thread. Is there a point here? I've addressed your question a couple times now. I didn't contribute to that other discussion and I don't think I even visited the thread; I think you have access to a number of sekrit mod tools here, and I suspect you might be able to tell that. I don't know if you'd be
completely honest about the results of such an investigation, but that's just an inherent risk of the process.
As for the factual elements of the above, I give you credit for being obliquely honest in your evaluation of the conflict of one person asserting rights over the body of another person being carried within her: you treat it as a null. That's one of the reasons even the offhand suggestion of a biologically-based limit terrifies you so - it would block DF. I guess we could get into allegories and parallels, but I'm sort of reluctant to bother when you go to the point of sneaking off to set up a different thread explicitly about the very comments you refuse to simply answer.
It's as though you've built a strange pedestal under those comments, circling around them and inviting others to observe them and, of course, disapprove. That's a strange juxtaposition, isn't it? Wouldn't it be so much simpler to just have an honest discussion? Let me know.
So pitch as much of a fit about what monstrous and evil things you want. And when you're ready to have an intelligent discussion, let me know.
Well it requires intelligent responses; you know, where both sides have to read and interpret the others' arguments. So far, that's been one way: from me to you. At this point, I'll need some kind of show of good faith on your part.
And reality doesn't change on your say-so, Geoff.
Well, don't blame me for you screwing your own argument, Tiassa. Your insistence on the satisfaction of the "
conflict of one "person" asserting rights within and over another person's body" is predicated on usage. Your gripe is that the fetus is asserting rights over the mother. Okay, can I conversely assert that the mother is asserting rights over the fetus? Not in your view. You don't see the fetus as a person, because you're promoting DF. Your counter must then be that without the fetus the mother would be fine, but that without the mother, the fetus would be dead. Ergo, it's a dependent association, this fetus you
can't see in the body of a mother you
can see. That dependency only changes with birth.
But of course, after 27 weeks the fetus can survive without the mother, and thus the dependency changes. The fetus has technical emancipation. This appears to be the only basis for an 'assertion of rights' argument that wouldn't apply to the fetus also; and at putative emancipation, that argument then fails also. It's another falsified step of a series of fall-back positions. Your fuzzy 'bright line' makes use of a related inference: namely that the fetus is separate from the mother. This is a pretty myopic benchmark, of course, because as we've already discussed, technical emancipation is possible far earlier. DF only makes sense as a point of liberation. Unfortunately, that's been pre-empted long before actual birth. Your 'bright line' then devolves to "I can see the baby, so it's a baby". You're a bright fellow, Tiassa. This didn't occur to you before?
Or maybe your central bitch is that it's an unredeemed rental arrangement. Those can be tricky, sure.
And then you end off with the more typical shrieking about how people who don't support DF - or who maybe won't shut up about their lack of support - are just doing it because they hate women/want
them shut up, etc etc, blah blah. You know, already-disabused assertions make the Baby Jesus cry.
But maybe not until he has dry feet.