Be Me, 20 years old. Psych Major. Rocking the blue hair (and would totally do it again, fyi....)
Get red pilled after the election in 2016 (I didn’t vote.) Lurk on the Donald, start seeing the bullshit the mainstream media censors Get somewhat alienated by very well meaning but brainwashed loved ones. You know, the ones who honestly want the best for humanity and have been brainwashed by the commies. Obtain Trauma. Go to counseling, etc to try to process/bury feelings about this. Stuff them deep down and try to move on.
Be Me in 2020. 24. The world is on fire. Person in my life gets red pilled. Person starts sending me red-pilly stuff. Feelings re-surface. See how badly America looks like it’s falling to globalism and communism
Fuck it. See you fuckers in November.
For the record, this post isn't directed at you so much as everyone else who may be reading this thread. I went through a change of mind on this subject over the years and wanted to add my own thoughts.
This is a 12 week old. I don't think it's unreasonable that some people consider that to be a person, with the legal protections of one. A common retort to this I see is, "it's not a person because it isn't done developing, and if it were prematurely born outside the womb it wouldn't be viable."
To the first argument, what determines if something has developed fully? Is a dwarf ever fully developed? Is a person under 25 fully developed if their brain is still undergoing changes? What about someone with autism or mental retardation? Are people missing limbs, hearing, sight, or suffering from dementia no longer developed and therefore worth less to society over time? If I kill a senior citizen rather than a healthy adult, should I be sentenced to less time in prison? Really, what I'm trying to say is why is someone's state of being or stage of development even a factor in this one particular case when it's (hopefully) not considered in others?
To the second argument, I've never seen a baby that was able to pop out of its mum's womb fully developed and start taking care of itself... Newborns are entirely dependent on their parents to feed, change, wash, and protect them so that they can continue developing. This is what I found so disturbing about the Ralph Northam audio referring to a non-viable fetus outside the mother's body. Literally all babies could be classified as non-viable if it just means that they need to develop further before they can reach "autopilot" mode outside of the uterus. And what if they get old and become non-viable again due to health issues that require intervention (say, by a machine)?
Finally, there's the consistency issue... if a pregnant woman is stabbed and her fetus dies, was that a murder? Was the mother-to-be not robbed of a son or daughter?