It's a perfect example of just how two conflicting ideas will never truly win a majority output. Neither side is right, just as neither side is wrong, though one is stronger than the other. You sense it, you feel it, if you are somewhat in tune with yourself, but you don't quite see it in front of you. What is it? What are they missing? This argument is horrible, but why? What's so horrible? They seem to be proposing reasonable arguments, some will sight religion, others science, others logic.
But you know what it is. Deep down. Just take a look closer at how their arguments exist. How does an abortion need to exist? Where does an abortion's existence come from? Both sides ignore this common ground they share, the root for their investments that plague their arguments from the moment words trickle out of their mouth... enough suspense. It's unwanted pregnancies. That's all it really is. There's an unwanted pregnancy: what do we do with it? We answered the question (obviously) multiple ways, but we chose a very controversial one. One that gained popularity, positively and negatively, quickly.
The attacks on abortion are ruthless. Religious icons find it against God's will, like we're play God himself. These are extreme ideas: they claim that rape victims are simply victims of fate, and they should bare the child and the labor of raising it, and see it as a gift from God. Of course, you can ask any rape victim if the baby they might be carrying feels like a gift of God, if they even still believe in him. But I regress, and move forward. Perhaps a more controversial topic is to say that the baby is alive. It has a heart-beat, finger-nails... limbs, vital organs... all sorts of neat things that we see in many live people. But then I also ask, weren't our skin cells alive? Yeah, those skin cells you see on the top layer were alive at one point, pushed beyond the reach of blood vessels and karatenized into a tough outter layer. What about cancer cells? Those are alive, too. Yet we feel no problem killing those. We also slay animals, for food and sustenance. I understand that there are anti-eating-animal organizations, but those are a tiny minority compared to the 4.6 billion people that reside on Earth.
The rebuttle to that is obviously it's a human life that matters, and that the death of our cells and other things allow the progress for life. A baby, however, is something that doesn't need to be slain. Live and let live, they cry.
Pro-Abortionists (not Pro-Choice, there is no such thing) simply do not believe the philosophy (their arguments are intertwined with what is above) that the anti-abortionists believe in. Which is acceptable, they certainly have a firm case.
I'm sure I've missed a few sides, a few arguments that could shut the other side(s) down, but let's not focus on that. Let's move on. Do you not see how these two sides can link together? How their arguments are terrible, having to set a definition for life and how and when to let it live. It's impossible to create a dead-line for life, just as it's impossible to tell a rape victim that she must bare the fruits of her misfortune.
I say let them unite. Let's move on past these rebuttles and these controversies, and onto something new. How about they team against unwanted pregnancies? They could take all the money and energy put into abortionist's arguments and put it towards condom promotions, birth control, and other safe-sex methods... let's teach them in high-school, have ads on TV for adults.
FORGET THE SIDES. We have made it nowhere. Let's end the need for abortion once and for all: let's stop unwanted pregnancies.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Let's Get Started
Let's think for a moment. About all the ideas in the world. Pick your favorite: political movements? Social movements? Religious movements? The formation of countries, kingdoms, even continents? The people within them? Scientific theories?
Sure, we test the ideas. Make inferences. Propose theories. Maybe nobody can prove you wrong. Maybe they can. Maybe they already have.
The fact of the matter is that our ideas are only as strong as the inferences we place them on. Some are solid inferences. Like numbers. Basic human rights and ideas, not to enslave other humans. Do not take advantage of people sexually. Colors. Red, blue, green, orange. These are examples of concepts I do not wish to talk about. I feel that we know and understand these already. Instead of talking about them, let's make these concepts something more...
...and use them as ground work for ideas that do not contain these concepts normally. Like abortions. Religion. Government structure. Consuming animals. Our rights. But let's use those concepts and remove a linear form from them. Lets turn them three-dimensional. Let there be no straight-forward answer. Let us understand that the answer does not exist...
...and that answers to these questions are not laws. They are not statutes, an amendment, an additional Bible testament. They aren't a new spiritual movement or fad diet. They're literally radioactive thoughts. Ideas, that no matter how much mass of concepts and inferences you base them upon, it just keeps breaking down. Keeps blowing up in your face. The side you chose on the matter literally falls apart right as you... "crawl into it".
Typically when you encounter these ideas, you realize you're no longer assessing a problem. You're defending yourself. Your pride. The philosophical basis you've founded your whole life upon. You manage to take the argument and make it about yourself. Now you've encountered your problem. That's why arguments like those will never be solved.
Let's take abortions for an example. Anti-Abortionists say that we have no right to take a life. Pro-Abortionists say that it is the woman's choice what she wants to do with her body.
Do you already see the problem with these two sides? I'm not going to explain it, just look at it. Try and understand why there will NEVER be headway, why a majority will never be heard, regardless of who ends up passing that law. That statute. That fad diet.
This is one of the ideas I hope we can spread with this blog, to inspire a new train of thought, to perhaps look at some of these things differently. And I will do it from behind a computer desk at 17 years old. Everything you're going to read above this post is just me... growing up.
Sure, we test the ideas. Make inferences. Propose theories. Maybe nobody can prove you wrong. Maybe they can. Maybe they already have.
The fact of the matter is that our ideas are only as strong as the inferences we place them on. Some are solid inferences. Like numbers. Basic human rights and ideas, not to enslave other humans. Do not take advantage of people sexually. Colors. Red, blue, green, orange. These are examples of concepts I do not wish to talk about. I feel that we know and understand these already. Instead of talking about them, let's make these concepts something more...
...and use them as ground work for ideas that do not contain these concepts normally. Like abortions. Religion. Government structure. Consuming animals. Our rights. But let's use those concepts and remove a linear form from them. Lets turn them three-dimensional. Let there be no straight-forward answer. Let us understand that the answer does not exist...
...and that answers to these questions are not laws. They are not statutes, an amendment, an additional Bible testament. They aren't a new spiritual movement or fad diet. They're literally radioactive thoughts. Ideas, that no matter how much mass of concepts and inferences you base them upon, it just keeps breaking down. Keeps blowing up in your face. The side you chose on the matter literally falls apart right as you... "crawl into it".
Typically when you encounter these ideas, you realize you're no longer assessing a problem. You're defending yourself. Your pride. The philosophical basis you've founded your whole life upon. You manage to take the argument and make it about yourself. Now you've encountered your problem. That's why arguments like those will never be solved.
Let's take abortions for an example. Anti-Abortionists say that we have no right to take a life. Pro-Abortionists say that it is the woman's choice what she wants to do with her body.
Do you already see the problem with these two sides? I'm not going to explain it, just look at it. Try and understand why there will NEVER be headway, why a majority will never be heard, regardless of who ends up passing that law. That statute. That fad diet.
This is one of the ideas I hope we can spread with this blog, to inspire a new train of thought, to perhaps look at some of these things differently. And I will do it from behind a computer desk at 17 years old. Everything you're going to read above this post is just me... growing up.
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