tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534600740192845222.post1951079095330085282..comments2023-07-09T07:29:16.668-04:00Comments on PRINCIPLEX: Why Conservatism is Floundering; Also LibertarianismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534600740192845222.post-57059582546238391312009-07-19T03:47:36.838-04:002009-07-19T03:47:36.838-04:00Thanks for your response. I learned something in ...Thanks for your response. I learned something in working through my response to you so I appreciate your comment. I generally see things in terms of basic principles and it is easy to assert a result of those premises in action without working through how it comes about. Because of my way of thinking about it, it took me a while to get what your real issue was. <br /><br />I think a lot of Principlexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15976696315627239104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534600740192845222.post-30556006955022006342009-07-19T01:07:13.627-04:002009-07-19T01:07:13.627-04:00I am aware of all that you wrote in your first res...I am aware of all that you wrote in your first response, and I agree with it fundamentally, notably "rights are grounded in individual, independent beings. A fetus is not such a being." Therefore, I believe it is an error to apply the right to life to the unborn (as seen in the last parts of my comment).<br /><br />I didn't get how applying that error made her a "slave to Kulerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04047347524341743239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534600740192845222.post-63147090244758613232009-07-19T00:00:09.839-04:002009-07-19T00:00:09.839-04:00Therefore, the problem with conservative oppositio...Therefore, the problem with conservative opposition to abortion is an invalid (mystical) epistemology, not an improper (collectivist) ethics. I do agree that elevating the state above the individual is one problem found in conservatism, but you haven't logically shown that this is the case regarding "rights" of the unborn. This shifts the focus away from the real problem to Principlexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15976696315627239104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534600740192845222.post-38441671249756160642009-07-18T23:39:55.098-04:002009-07-18T23:39:55.098-04:00Suppose you disagreed with a pregnant woman’s beha...<i>Suppose you disagreed with a pregnant woman’s behavior because you said she was harming her fetus. On your theory, in defense of the right of the fetus, you could sue her and get a judgment that she be forced to do what you say is the right way to behave. (Or the health department or someone could.) Granting the fetus rights would then mean that the woman right to her body is null and void.Principlexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15976696315627239104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534600740192845222.post-89169219021868702432009-07-18T23:22:41.509-04:002009-07-18T23:22:41.509-04:00Dear Keith,
Sorry for this response to take so lo...Dear Keith,<br /><br />Sorry for this response to take so long. I have taken your comment and interspersed it with my comments in italics. This is going to take 3 separate comments to complete. SCB<br /><br />Your comment:<br /><br />You wrote, "[T]he conservative position...on abortion...turns the woman into the property of the state by saying that a fetus has rights. [T]he net effect, Principlexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15976696315627239104noreply@blogger.com