Bill Burr on abortion
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Why is something that is going to be a baby not still count as a baby? Where exactly do we draw the line for humans? Because I promise if it's not, conception, I can word that into letting me murder a whole lot of people.
Told that to a friend who stopped talking to me after Trump got elected, when he said that it can't take care of itself, and its life depends on another person. I reminded him that's most kids until about 5 years old, people with severe disabilities and most elderly since they need tons of constant care. So could I kill them with no repercussions?
Why would it? Does an acorn count as an oak tree?
Viability is just the ability to live outside the womb. Why on earth would you give legal protection to a fertilized egg after conception, which has no self-awareness, no brain, no heart, nothing at all that makes humans what they are.
Not really. The acorn does not need to be fertilized, after all.
And do you think an acorn that 'sprouted' as the same of an actual oak tree?
Because whether you want an apple tree, palm tree or a fir, that acorn will always grow into an oak tree. The only difference is if you kill it before it has that chance to grow. It doesn't matter how many people outside the acorn say that it's just a clump of cells, if you let it grow it becomes an oak tree.
Because if you don't as I said, there are millions of people who lack the ability to live on their own, so why should they be given legal protection if a fertilized egg doesn't?
But does that make it an actual oak tree, and we don't treat it as such.
You seem to be arguing against the pro-abortion position that the fertilized egg is not "human". I'm not making that argument. Obviously, it is a human organism. But it's nowhere near developed enough to merit legal protection of any kind.
Like I said: they are viable: they're not attached to someone else's body for sustenance, nor will they die if they are disconnected.
Why does anyone merit legal protection of any kind?
Aside from being an arbitrary and subjective standard, it's also dumb and false.
We all depend on someone else's body for sustenance. Where do you think food comes from? 410 farm workers died on the job last year in the USA. Farming is one of the deadliest jobs.
Seems pretty arbitrary. It can’t live outside of the womb as a baby without assistance, so why is that such a significant milestone?
Because you know what it will become in X weeks assuming that you don’t kill it. I mean, why do we give extra legal protection to children? They are more protected than adults even though they are far less emotionally and mentally developed. Yet we know they will become adults with full legal rights at some point.
Maybe that’s because they are more vulnerable, and less capable of defending themselves? Now how does a fertilized egg compare to a child? Seems even more helpless, and perhaps that makes it even more worthy of legal protection.
Am acorn isn't a human dude