Wednesday, June 06, 2007
(5:42 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Ambition
Today I've spent a lot of time in an online debate about abortion. My participation was at first marked by anger, since I've come to view pro-life rhetoric as bullying toward women, and I respond very negatively to that kind of thing. All the classics were trotted out -- the postulate that a fetus is a "person," the idea that the womb is just one geographical place among others from the perspective of the rights of this "person," etc. After I calmed down, I feel like I started making some pretty decent arguments -- arguments that will be very helpful the next time I... waste a lot of time in a debate about abortion.Even if I have no hope of ever convincing my interlocutors, though, I think I can reach "lurkers" who are on the fence -- thereby contributing to my life goal, which is the extinction of the white race and the annexation of the United States by Mexico.
