Gregg R Thomas

Unseen wrote:
We do not live in a world where the average person is a philosopher who acts rationally without prejudice based on information.

That’s true, it must be a visceral decision at the end of the day for pregnant mothers.  But in wider society, on both sides, people take philosophical positions.

OpenAI reveal they achieved AGI – OpenAI o3.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will have a degree of “self-awareness”, adaptability, and creative problem-solving in situations it hasn’t been explicitly trained for. It will have the ability to continually learn and adapt autonomously, mimicking human-like learning processes.

It will have the…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
What is the highest good or goal on each side?

Simon, Simon, Simon. We do not live in a world where the average person is a philosopher who acts rationally without prejudice based on information. Most people act from their gut, taking their attitudes into account, and based only on the information they want to credit or even hear.

Pro-life people say that “life” is sacrosanct no matter what.

Most pro-lifers are liars as they very quickly become anti-lifers or pro-death when it comes to capital punishment. So what if a few innocent people are murdered by the State. Yet a fetus that is about 2 to 2.5 inches (5 to 6 cm) long from crown to rump (head to bottom) and weighs abo…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
However, the disagreements over abortion are not disagreements over facts.  They are conflicts over attitudes or matters of opinion or definition.

What is the highest good or goal on each side?

Pro-life people say that “life” is sacrosanct no matter what.  Pro-choice people take a longer-term approach and think about the lifetime o…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
It’s often “framed” by people who aren’t facing the question and the woman facing the choice has already set aside “greater good for the child” question.

We don’t know how the individual women see it. It must be pretty subjective. As men, we never will understand it directly.

It can be argued that it’s very imp…

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@Strega – Too many people are afraid to live on their own for even a short period of time. I highly recommend it.

Maybe just don’t start writing a novel about what can happen to Jack when he spends too much time at work and not enough time playing. 🙂

For those with terminal illnesses, assisted dying is a powerful quality of life option. For most, just knowing that they have the legal option in place in case they want or need to avail of it at some future point, immediately improves their quality of life. It also allows their love ones, who would assist them, the peace of mind knowing they…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die.

I don’t think that assisted dying on the grounds of depression should be legal, because depression is always in theory reversible.  On the other hand, it took being genuinely offered to die for this lady to want to live again.  It’s a difficult one.

As part of my divorce, I gave the whole house and contents to my almost-ex wife. I then landed the perfect place to live. I’m ‘caretaker’ for my friends spare house (the mother died a while back) sort of like Jack Nicholson in The Shining.

I pay a peppercorn rent and have a four bedroom house in the woods with 6 acres of land, and heating from…[Read more]

Thanks Strega, hope you are warm and cozy where you are. I was almost going to fly to Atlanta today but skipped it this Christmas. Weather is better here!

Hey Reg!  Thank you!  Great year of Sunday School 🙂

Have a great week everyone and a very Happy Christmas!

Unseen wrote:
It’s often “framed” by people who aren’t facing the question and the woman facing the choice has already set aside “greater good for the child” question.

We don’t know how the individual women see it.  It must be pretty subjective.  As men, we never will understand it directly.

It can be argued that it’s very important soc…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
They real plan is to privatize social security/medicare and get that money into the stock market. So first they have to screw it up and then they will get away with it. America is dumber than a box of hammers.

Hopefully, dumb as they are, it will become undeniable that the food shortages, restaurant closures, increasing rents, and…[Read more]

Fuck around and find out, as they say. And the GOP will find out, I predict, in the midterms and in the next presidential election.

Immigrant workers are already going back into the woodwork rather than risk deportation, and the Republican dream of taking everyone off entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid and forcing them to accept the vacant…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I frame the question of abortion as a healthcare choice.

Well, yeah, but (as a pro-lifer might say) what about the health of the baby?

There is a deep divide over this issue and it’s not a disagreement over facts (which would make it solvable). Rather, it’s a disagreement in attitudes.

I frame the question of abortion as a healthcare choice.