Hassan Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 [quote name='Resurrexi' post='1879712' date='May 31 2009, 09:53 PM']Not that the other side isn't guilty of using extremely de-emotionalized langauge... "termination of pregnancy" As well as vague words: "choice"[/quote] Sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddington Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 We don't need to reach around for scenarios when the truth is on our side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddington Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 [quote name='Arpy' post='1879562' date='May 31 2009, 09:06 PM']Anything's possible. You just have to use your [img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e123/AleximMose/Imagination.jpg[/img][/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisChildForever Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 [quote name='Hassan' post='1879700' date='May 31 2009, 09:50 PM']No. Unless you make the term so elastic as to render it almost totally meaningless and utterly analytically useless abortion cannot qualify as genocide.[/quote] LOL @ this attempt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddington Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 I don't like to call abortion "genocide." We should talk about abortion to persuade people of varied diction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassan Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 [quote name='HisChildForever' post='1879736' date='May 31 2009, 09:00 PM']LOL @ this attempt.[/quote] Be as intelectually vacuous as you care. I hope you don't expect to be taken seriously by anyone outside your own little choir with it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassan Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 [quote name='Paddington' post='1879760' date='May 31 2009, 10:08 PM']I don't like to call abortion "genocide." We should talk about abortion to persuade people of varied diction.[/quote] By her usage the government not providing sufficient protection to workers handling materials like asbestos through federal law could constitute genocide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightofChrist Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 [quote name='Hassan' post='1879767' date='May 31 2009, 09:11 PM']By her usage the government not providing sufficient protection to workers handling materials like asbestos through federal law could constitute genocide.[/quote] If a group knowingly used asbestos or whatever means to murder millions of a particular group of people it would be genocide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightofChrist Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 [quote name='Hassan' post='1879700' date='May 31 2009, 08:50 PM']No. Unless you make the term so elastic as to render it almost totally meaningless and utterly analytically useless abortion cannot qualify as genocide.[/quote] Using the term "culture" is often and correctly used to help define a group of people at a particular age or state of growth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassan Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 [quote name='KnightofChrist' post='1879785' date='May 31 2009, 09:18 PM']If a group knowingly used asbestos or whatever means to murder millions of a particular group of people it would be genocide.[/quote] That might qualify as genocide. That is not the example I used though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightofChrist Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 [quote name='Hassan' post='1879798' date='May 31 2009, 09:25 PM']That might qualify as genocide. That is not the example I used though.[/quote] Your example had a hill of beans to do with HisChildForever point. Your example was not the intentional termination of a group, his was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisChildForever Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 [quote name='Hassan' post='1879762' date='May 31 2009, 10:09 PM']Be as intelectually vacuous as you care. I hope you don't expect to be taken seriously by anyone outside your own little choir with it though.[/quote] Uh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassan Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 [quote name='KnightofChrist' post='1879810' date='May 31 2009, 09:32 PM']Your example had a hill of beans to do with HisChildForever point.[/quote] It was logically analogous [quote]Your example was not the intentional termination of a group, his was.[/quote] The government is proactively aiming to exterminate the nations population of fetuses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassan Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 (edited) [quote name='HisChildForever' post='1879816' date='May 31 2009, 09:34 PM']Uh.[/quote] I accept your apology Edited June 1, 2009 by Hassan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisChildForever Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 Definitely not an apology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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