BLASPHEMER!


>> ^Bleedingsnowman:
Dark Lord, Dork Lord, Lord of Lard, whatever. Maybe you should hang out with these guys. They'll accept you for who you are.

I didn't even bother reading the interview because life's to short to waste on hearing anything Zifnab has to say.

Zifnab: does anyone even believe in him anymore. He's like a amusing relic from a more superstitious time, forgotten by time, just like the mythical dragons he holds so dear in his heart.

Dark Lord, Dork Lord, Lord of Lard, whatever. Maybe you should hang out with these guys. They'll accept you for who you are.

Good idea!

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
hahaha! geek tag perhaps?

Hey, thanks Dag!

In reply to this comment by dag:
*promote

Let me count the ways to make fun of her:

1. Ugly
2. Single-for-life
3. LARPING!
4. Speaks like Doug Douglason from Fear of Girls
5. DISCOUNT CANDY DAY!
6. Fat
7. She is so cynical because people reject her, and associates that with commercialism.
8. She loves feedback even if it is bad!

We're looking at it from two completely different sides. I see a life being formed, regardless of the circumstances that brought it into being. You see a fetus that does not yet count as alive. This is a major difference. From the first perspective, abortion is like killing a small child because it's burdensome, just at an earlier and impersonal stage. From the other, abortion is terminating a potentially troublesome pregnancy, or a standard medical issue. I personally view it like this: You would definitely think it is vile crime for a mother to kill her child after they had been born. As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between killing baby in the nursery and aborting a fetus is that you have a face to associate with the child already born. It becomes more important to you because you can see him/her.

Tofumar, a self-defense analogy is a bit weak. I was referring to the story the doctor gave at the end of the article about the muslim boy. The doctor's ultimate point was that since the boy feared the girl's brothers would kill him, he saved a life by aborting the baby. My point was that viewing the aborted baby as being alive means the doctor killed an unborn child to save a man from fear. Were the girls brothers going to kill him? How does the doctor know that's truely what will happen? If that was the case, there are no better reactions than to murder a child to save a man that made poor choices? I don't mean he should be killed either, but he can't find a better way to deal with his problems? I think in this situation it should be viewed as courageous for them to find a way to give that child a chance to live, not for killing it to buy themselves temporary happiness. To bring that back to self-defense, what does killing the baby have to do with it? Self-defense is defined as "the act of defending one's person when physically attacked, as by countering blows or overcoming an assailant" or "a claim or plea that the use of force or injuring or killing another was necessary in defending one's own person from physical attack." Under those circumstances, killing the brothers would be self-defense if they attacked him. A defense against someone that has chosen to attack you, not against someone completely different to prevent a suspected attack at an undetermined point in the future. Killing the baby is just plain murder.

Farhad, you're using some pretty flimsy logic to connect Roe vs Wade to "the largest drop in crime rates in the US." Could it be a factor? Possibly. Is it the sole cause of a decrease in crime. Certainly not. You're usually really good with framing logical arguments so I find that one pretty out of character. The small-government part of me can definitely see your point about social programs and adoption though. It all comes back to the core issue, how do you view the pregnancy? As a fetus, or an unborn baby? If you believe it is not yet alive, then it becomes a clinical issue to you. No different than removing a tumor or other harmful condition. If it's an unborn baby, it's much more complex. Everything else has to be weighed against the idea of ending a life for convenience. Is it worth the money to support these children so they have a chance to live, or is it better to chose for them and kill them before they are born?

Episode 2 - http://www.videosift.com/video/Fear-of-Girls-Episode-2

"Jeff" is "Doug" in the 'Fear of Girls' D&D video.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fear-of-Girls-ADD