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So I would go as far as to include medical professionals, but not the other parent? For lack of any actual argument, you've turned to such a degree of pedantry that it changes the spirit of what I said. Not that your pedantry adds anything to the discussion one way or another.



The problem is that the "spirit" of what you said was pretty confusing.

You seemed to imply that a social contract requires people to take actions they may not want to do because by not taking those actions, they impact "others" and then said abortion doesn't fall into that because apparently that "others" group is so small it doesn't count as "others"?? Yet you included people using incorrect pronouns to an INDIVIDUAL... so your entire argument feels pretty arbitrary.

The pedantry response was to hopefully make you realize that your argument was arbitrary, I had hoped you'd come to that on your own - but here we are.




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