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  • My support for abortion is grounded in my belief that zygotes don't have souls. I don't know if I would support abortion in general without believing this. Here are some things you can try, assuming that you're talking with a rational person:

    • Zygotes don't have a nervous system, the house of the soul, at all; so they can't have a soul. Even longer until they have brain activity.
    • Even their brain activity and complexity is nothing compared to that of, say, a chicken. So if you're fine with eating chicken, you should be fine with abortions.
    • If you were in a burning building, and only had time to save one, which would you save? (a) a crying 5-year old, or (b) a thousand fertilized embryos on a tray.
  • Did you not notice I said "otherwise"?

    Regardless, terrorist is a subjective term, and typically one excludes agencies with jurisdiction or organized militia; so the police, ICE, U.S. military, IDF, etc. don't qualify regardless of your disposition toward them. This is why newspapers are usually quite hesitant to use the word "terrorist." There's a good case for calling the CIA (and other foreign-intelligence TLAs) terrorists though, since they operate outside of places where they have the authority to do so. Obviously, it's semantics at the end of the day.

  • Regarding (1), it still gets the network effect because of iOS users. That it's harder for android users to install does not mean the marginal utility of an android user installing the app is lower than that of an iOS user installing the app.

  • I think the more important takeaway from this article is not the political one, but that problems with a biological fix can be extremely easy to solve compared to problems that require societal change, even though we normally think of it as being the other way around.

  • That's how Canada got its first female PM, and it has not resulted in any more. I don't really think it's going to have the feminist effect you are hoping for.

    My honest opinion is that both Clinton and Harris lost to Trump because people wanted Trump. Biden won despite being a paper bag because people realized they hated trump. Then they forgot about it.