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Same as the other polar extreme dogma.
... Gotta be some remedies for that, so people are alleviated of their unreasonableness and irrationality.
... ... Mattias Desmet's book The Psychology of Totalitarianism springs to mind. Main thrust of remedy is to keep speaking sensible nuance to those in a mass formation/groupthink/totalitarianised-psyche, even though it seems risky as they increasingly see any and all atrocities as necessary virtues, and double-down all the harder the more they're confronted with the contradictions, the self-inconsistency, ... which does seem more than just dangerous, but then you've got to compare that risk of danger with the greater escalating harm into worsening atrocities that happens all the faster when they go unchallenged.
Ummm one extreme is doing the right thing and one extreme is doing the wrong thing so I don't know the point you are trying to make. Yes there are some cases when Abortion can cause harm to the mother than actually giving birth. But those specific cases are for the DOCTORS AND MOTHERS TO DECIDE and not anyone else.
...is that first part supposed to be a serious argument? The other side would say the exact same thing. It's also an issue that inherently will never be black and white because children don't develop in discrete stages, you can never point to a specific time and say "until here it's ok". Some of the arguments for abortion even still apply post-birth, such as the parents not being capable of caring for the child properly, making everyone including the child miserable. And the child a day before birth isn't all that different from the child the day after.
I'd choose birth as the arbitrary cutoff point just because the child stops being part of the mother at that time and we have to put a limit somewhere, but I'd probably lose a lot of people with that (and I'd also still say that's the right thing).
When there exist people unironically making the argument that factory farming is good actually because any life is better than no life, of course there will be a lot more wanting to just defend life for the sake of it even if it just makes everyone involved more miserable.
Just want to say I appreciate you having the courage to provide counterpoints in a very biased space.
They're not providing counter viewpoints They're just being intransitive. There is no such thing as the force everyone to have abortions viewpoint so they are arguing in bad faith.
A lot of their comments are completely nonsensical as well, e.g.
I mean what the hell has that got to do with anything? We're supposed to be talking about the morality of abortions and they throw in animal cruelty in there as if that's some kind of counterpoint. Also I don't think literally anyone thinks that factory farming is moral because otherwise the animals would never have existed, I've never heard of anyone espouse that view. Not that it would matter even if they did, because it's got literally nothing to do with the topic at hand.