(04-24-2017 06:29 AM)stinkfist Wrote: (04-24-2017 01:56 AM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote: (04-24-2017 12:24 AM)stinkfist Wrote: take out human life and substitute prohibition and they become the same argument....today, the same applies to marijuana....
That's a pretty damn fundamental thing to take out, no?
I mean take the sex out of rape laws and it's no different than jay walking.
my argument went much deeper than that cherry picked comment....
I will grant you that it did, and I'm sorry for zeroing in on just this.
Quote:therefore, I won't continue to argue a cherry picked comment taken out of context
fair enough...
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I'll just say this about being pro-choice from my perspective.
Quote:If legalized abortion was reversed, we would revert back to back alley surgeons and too many newborns that would be mishandled, abused, abandoned, etc....
You don't make something legal simply because "people would do it illegally". That is a logically absurd position.
Quote:en macro, I can't let my personal opinion thinking it's morally wrong mask the eventual overwhelming negatives that would most certainly occur if roe v. wade was overturned....
Abortion was legal in many states before Roe.... Many people are under the assumption that if Roe was overturned then abortion would be illegal, that is simply not true.
But please weight "the overwhelming negatives" against the nearly 60 million babies killed since roe was passed. That is *ten* times the number of Jews who died in the holocaust.
Quote:as an argument, it's an unwinnable scenario as humans exist today....
I disagree.
Quote:take out human life and substitute prohibition and they become the same argument....today, the same applies to marijuana....
Because, as I said.... you take the main issue our of this. If it's not human life than I don't give a fat rats behind what you do to your body, including taking drugs.
Quote:think about how many lives have been ruined/lost due to marijuana being illegal since Nixon created his moral war on drugs (mostly against marijuana)....w/o looking it up, I'm betting it's comparable to aborted embryos during the same time frame....
IDK whether to point out that two wrongs don't make a right or point out that you're comparing apples and oranges.
There were an estimated 200K "back alley abortions" (really performed in homes and medical offices) per year in the US. About 5,000 deaths per year from those procedures.
There are 3-4 times that many in the US....
Compating the two..
6-800K aborted babies per year under roe
200K aborted babies per year before (and 5K accidental deaths)
It's not clearly a better situation now, is is?
Quote:I'd also bet that abortion rates went up dramatically once that dipshite began that pointless war....I'd also bet they're down now as marijuana becomes decriminalized....
So MJ is the reason abortions are down... something something correlation something something causation.
Quote:now, think about what life would look like as a whole if alcohol and weed were never illegal and the process was to educate the masses about the real dangers of misusing such from birth....toss in educating why to use a condom (sorry catholics) and things might be a tad different on the numbers front
I don't think it should be illegal but MJ is not lifes little "fix everything"
Quote:crazy shite, eh? I'm betting my timeline matches up pretty well in comparison.....