re: #707 Obdicut

Oh. I don’t care for metaphysics. So that’d explain that.

I’m saying you’re destroying the ‘mind’ part of the argument when you use inaccurate, emotionally laden terms that allow your argument to be jettisoned through both inaccuracy and emotional mismatch. If you tell someone a fetus is a parasite and that person had had a child and they don’t feel that it was like a parasite, then how have you not hobbled your argument out of the gate?

Again I raise the question: what should I use instead that works? You praised windsagio’s correct and polite speech but note it doesn’t work. My use of “parasite” has had some people actually engage, and after engagement some have changed their minds. So I have ‘good but doesn’t work’ vs ‘bad but sometimes works’.

Give me “good and sometimes works” and I’ll use it. Until then I am left with empirical reality.