School's in session, folks! Sit up and pay attention.
No pencils and paper? Don't worry. If you're here, you're probably living in the 21st century with the rest of us and you don't need it. For those still using oil lamps, quills, and such...well, you may have a problem.
Please enjoy our collection of logical fallacies committed by Yeson26, not as a part of their campaign, but as the totality of their campaign. Some of these, especially the appeal to authority, can be part of a legitimate argument but standing on these alone doth not a conclusive argument make. Yet we do it all the time and we fall for these all the time. Why? Because our brains aren't perfectly logical computing machines - they are simply organs evolved to do the best they can to survive (and survival does not equal logical perfection).
We kept the music a bit lower for this video since more reading is required (and we are working to get away from text and into voice as soon as possible) but I hope if you like the song, you'll listen to it a second time and enjoy the very appropriate lyrics by StatueofDiveo:
Welcome to a world,
Where you will never be alone;
You will never leave,
You will never go back home.
There's nothing you can do,
You are under our control;
Watch as we destroy you,
and take away your soul.
Welcome to a world,
Where you are under our command;
We have infinite power,
Too much to comprehend.
Ripping you to shreds,
With forces nobody can stand;
Wait until you see
All the delights that we have planned.
Welcome to the black hole...
[Additional sound effects by: Digifish]
Mississippi has made the national news in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/us/politics/personhood-amendments-would-ban-nearly-all-abortions.html.
ReplyDeleteWe need others to see what a bad idea it is for all Mississippi Women.
Friend was just saying this evening, How can people be so irrational, so willing to believe crazy things they are told. She needs to see this song -- it's all about that mentality.
ReplyDeleteIt is simply bringing the constitution in line with what science already recognizes: "By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception." Dr. Hymie Gordon, Chairman, Department of Genetics at the Mayo Clinic
ReplyDeleteWatch this beautiful music video written by a man who was conceived by an act of rape:
http://www.theradiancefoundation.org/portfolio-item/unwanted-a-story-about-choice/
The scientific definition of life has little to do with the legal concept of personhood. It's madness and folly to conflate the two.
ReplyDeleteIf you had watched the video we posted, Anonymous, you'd know that an appeal to pity such as you present in your "conceived in rape" video is a logical fallacy that is not going to change a reasoning mind.
Amendment 26 is not an opinion poll. It's not asking you what you think or what you believe or even what science says about when life begins. It's asking you if you are willing to grant legal personhood to a freaking fertilized egg. When you give a fertilized egg rights, you destroyed the meaning of rights.
No number of sappy emotional videos will ever change the fact that your position is illogical and wrong.
i stupid-ly posted on the video itself, instead of here. what i said over there:
ReplyDelete"wait a minute - WORDING of the bill reads something like "redefining the word “person” to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, *CLONING*, or the functional equivalent thereof" - but the quoted FB under the fallacy of "Assertation" reads "if you want to end abortion AND CLONING"
WTF?!?!?! do these people even READ WHAT THEY WRITE?!
also - birth control. there is exactly ZERO evidence that either the Pill or IUDs "cause abortions[or prevent implantation]".the former works by preventing ovulation,the later by preventing fertilization.the language in BC inserts is ONLY a cover-your-ass legal tactic,because at one point the THEORY was that both forms had a "back-up method" of stopping implantation.it has NEVER been shown to happen in ANY of the studies performed on it.REAL LIFE causes "lack of implantation", but BC does NOT."
that last one got a bit compressed, as i ran out of room [which is why it was stupid to post it on you-tube. sigh]
at LEAST 25% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. best guess, by WHO [and, IIRC, the CDC agreed with WHO] is that at LEAST another 25% of potential pregnancies NEVER IMPLANT. not because of birth control [like i said, there is ZERO evidence that BC prevents implantation - and studies HAVE been done, and have never found even circumstancial evidence] but just because they don't implant.
there could be any number of reasons for this - the most common is that while fertalization took place, the woman's cycle was a bit off and the uterus wasn't *capable* of being implanted. then there's genetic issues [though those tend to be full miscarriages, as opposed to just failed implantation]. stress or other things that can affect hormonal level. gods only know what all - i once saw a list of over 1,000 things that could "cause" a failed implantation and/or a miscarriage. [both time my mother went to school - when i was 9 and when i was 20 - i tagged along, because i'm the sort of geek who thinks learning for the sake of learning is fun. the first time, she was in an RN program, with an OB/Gyn specialty; the second, she was going for Nurse Practicioner, with the same specialty. it was in one of the NP classes, dealing with infertility and "underfertility", that i saw the lists]
this isn't about "saving lives" - if they really, truly wanted to save lives, there are enough being lost daily, even in the U.S., that they don't need this crusade. it's not even just about stopping the "Holocaust" of abortion [wow, i hate how they steal things like that] - especially as that CANNOT be "Biblically" backed up, God as portrayed in the OT was all about infantcide and abortion [true fact: there's a recipe for an abortificant in the Old Testament. it's been years since i read it, but i THINK it's in Leviticus]
this is about controlling women. what happens when "personhood" begins at conception [or, really, anytime pre-birth?] the more "personhood" is granted to eggs, embryos, and fetuses, the LESS personhood women have. hell, the CDC has made it part of the "Federal Health Guidelines" for ALL women "of child-bearing age" to "act at all times as if [they] are pre-pregnant". which means no coffee, or drinking, or smoking, or heavy exercise, or NO exercise, or roller coasters, or extreme sports, or driving too fast, or, or, or, or...
[can you tell i'm scared? no, terrified!]