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Building on #140, it’s more like forcing someone into your home, locking the door, making them depend on you for food and water, and then complaining they’re in your home. Clearly, killing them is not the answer (if they’re a person).

#141 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 11 months ago · context · Criticism

Where exactly does a child’s dependency on the parents end? At five years old? When the child moves out? Seems arbitrary.

(Amaro)

#142 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 11 months ago · Criticism of #141Criticized3

Whenever a child may reach independence, it’s certainly well past pregnancy, so it’s not an issue wrt abortion.

#143 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 11 months ago · Criticism of #142
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Not a doctor but AFAIK we already have medical knowledge about when physical dependency in particular ends. For example, doctors will sometimes deliver a baby prematurely when continued pregnancy would be dangerous for the mother.

(Danny)

#148 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 11 months ago · Criticism of #142
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When developing rules for society, we run into many arbitrary lines. More important than drawling the lines correctly is retaining the means to redraw them over time.

(Logan)

#152 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 11 months ago · Criticism of #142
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