• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I always thought it would be funny to argue against the religious right that life begins before conception, and conception is a meaningless marker on the way to being a baby just like “viability” was.

    But it doesn’t seem as funny these days.

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      9 months ago

      Yes, life begins at inception. When the idea to have sex with someone blossoms in your mind, the resulting child now has a soul.

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      9 months ago

      It kinda does if you believe in reincarnation. As I understood it you get to pick your parents before you’re conceived.

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        9 months ago

        As someone who has had a bizarre life so far, I think the argument for self determined reincarnation is a good one—I’m the only entity I know with a sick enough sense of humor to write the conditions of my life, and I have more belief that I exist than in the existence of a sky puppeteer.

        I’m a one degree of separation hinge between the White House, a crack house, and a nudist tree house, and I’m not even Hunter Biden. Only I would have done this to me.