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Look at all the cute kids! (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by FlyingSquid to c/politicalmemes

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[–] Dasus 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, it is. And it's fucking terrifying.

But you can't really push it much further unless you plan to prosecute wet dreams as genocide.

The rights argument has — for as long as I remember — been "life begins at conception", which is why it can be applied to frozen embryos, because conception has happened. (Despite that being dizzyingly stupid, it still has a miniscule amount of shitty logic behind it.)

So despite me knowing the right is absolutely nuts and has no logic to their "logic" at all, I don't see any argument being possible for "gametes are people".

Because then ovulation would be murder without conception and even a successful conception would mean the man is a mass murderer, as hundreds of millions of sperm would "die" from not being the one that made it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But you can’t really push it much further unless you plan to prosecute wet dreams as genocide.

I have a feeling the gender that is subjected to those is safe from these laws

[–] Dasus 1 points 9 months ago

That is true, but prosecuting every woman who ovulates without conceiving the egg and then menstruates, as a murderer?

I can't see that being too realistic either.

But like 80% of the politics of the US over the last decade or more have seemed to me like "well that's just too insane to go through", but noooo, I'm always wrong about it.

When Trump went up for election the first time, I was sure there was no way he'd get through. I laughed myself silly at the idea.

Then the elections came around. Lost the popular vote. Still won.

I did not laugh.