Except for the fact that once an infant is born and granted a birth certificate, they are NOT 100% physically dependent on their host organism.
That simple fact changes them from a parasite into an semi-autonomous being, no longer part-of-the-mother's-body.
Its physical dependence is analogous to the dependence an infant has on its mother's resources, time, and labor. She has a right to her body, but she doesn't have a right to the aforestated? How do you rationalize that?
Why do you believe genes are more important than nutrition?
I don't. I believe genes are relevant in the exercises of distinction.
This is an example of the dime-store-psychoanalysis fallacy.
No such fallacy is logically recognizable. Closest thing may be the "Freudian Fallacy" but that's a rhetorical title of a hit-piece.
This is an example of the dime-store-psychoanalysis fallacy.
If you're curious about my intentions, feel free to ask.
I'm actually not curious about your intentions at all. I can make inferences based on your rationalizations. That is you support a woman's right to an abortion, but you also support releasing custody of infants as long as its an medical facility. That's the cop-out. That is the "means to justify."
Parents have historically had the option to release custody of their children.
Some societies will even remove children by force if they determine the parent and or guardian is unfit.
Yes, but they have to ensure it's safe custody to a medical professional, public servant, and/or willing party. Would you so support a law that legitimize a woman's right to an abortion with the proviso that she ensures the zygote/embryo/fetus's safe custody inside the womb of another?
Assuming of course one is emotional about atrocities. My mention of the rape wasn't to trigger your emotion. It was to test the consistency of your rationale. Rights being codified by consensus is all-encompassing. I took what I presumed to be a morally objectionable scenario and codified it with your premise to gauge whether or not rights are based on arbitration like consensus, or even regulation, or a prevalent moral standard.
Christian.
We want land and these savages have the land we want, so we will kill them until they do what we say, and then we'll kill them some more just to show them whose the boss.
How do you know it was Christian?
You don't have a functioning society if you don't have enough bio-diversity to sustain human life.
What you have in your example is a gang.
Gangster ethics are another animal altogether.
I completely agree. In my society, we'd die off soon. But that's not the point. The scenario isn't meant to describe its own merits as a "functional" society. It's meant to elucidate your rationale. And I also agree that it's gangster ethics. And that's what democracy functions on: gangster ethics. You have gangs in the forms of lobbies, foundations, pacs, and social justice movements. It's not a different animal at all.
She was clearly unable to protect her own rights.
Was she? I never said she got raped. I asked whether our voting to rape her would dictate her right to her sovereign territory?
If you can't convince your tribe to follow you, then the unconvinced will either be left behind, will become free-riders, or will challenge you when the opportunity arises.
Or they can carry out their own imperatives. My point is that dissent doesn't constitute criminality.
The open-secret is that there is virtually zero-difference between the "two-parties".
More than 49% still have tacit faith in the legal system.
At a minimum they believe that if they step-out-of-bounds they will be severely punished.
That at least motivates them to keep their heads down for the most part.
Agreed. So what does that suggest about the system?
Ideally we can persuade each other with logic.
When logic fails, we use enticements (which creates [de facto] mercenaries).
When enticement fails, we use fear-mongering (which creates [de facto] cowards).
When fear-mongering fails, we use credible threats of violence (which creates [de facto] slaves).
Agreed. So which are you? An idealist, mercenary, coward, or a slave? [In case, you're wondering, I wouldn't consider myself either of the last two.]