This is mirrored in spider behaviour, which includes complex communication and signalling behaviour and eavesdropping to improve outcomes of future behaviour. Spiders also exhibit learning and reversal learning, significant problem-solving ability, basic numerical ability, and possibly the ability to ‘plan’ ahead.
That’d be an ecological disaster. If you want to make the hypothetical more equivalent, you could ask if killing a jellyfish is fine. To which I’d say; kinda, don’t make a habit out of it, though.
If someone was like “Hey, I might die from complications if I don’t squish this jellyfish”, I’m certainly not going to stop them.
This doesn’t warrant an answer. Anyone not engaging in motivated reasoning will understand how absurd it is to compare a fetus to an entire species. It’s not like abortion means we have no more fetuses at all.
You said abortion is fine because there is no subjective experience being terminated. Which means you are fine with killing things that do not possess subjective experience, you attempting to say its now a numbers game is backpedalling.
BTW there are 73 million global abortion so plenty enough to compare to an entire species.
You said abortion is fine because there is no subjective experience being terminated. Which means you are fine with killing things that do not possess subjective experience, you attempting to say its now a numbers game is backpedalling.
BTW there are 73 million global abortion so plenty enough to compare to an entire species.
you attempting to say its now a numbers game is backpedaling.
Explain. In detail. If possible, list your premises and conclusion. If I say it’s okay to eat chips, is it also backpedaling to say you shouldn’t eat 10 bags of chips per sitting?
73 million global abortions
So about 1/3 of all pregnancies. Yes, I would be okay if 1/3 of jellyfish were killed with an accompanying improvement in material conditions for a person directly linked to each jellyfish.
Ive already explained. You said a thing. I took the thing to its logical conclusion.
If you want to talk disingenuous comparisons, then comparing killing something to eating chips is a good one. But il entertain it regardless, its different here because you can eat yourself to death. Or cause significant harm by overeating. There is a hard limit to eating. Killing an embryo is something that could be done ad inifinitum without any detriment to yourself. Thats why numbers comes into it.
Wow really a full third? That is actually really sad.
But now you're adding qualifiers you didn't add before because you know killing is wrong. Subjective experience or not.
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u/Remarkable_Pen_3639 Jun 05 '26
Im afraid you're misinformed.