Prosecutors Refuse to Drop Charges Against Texas 11-Year-Old Put in Solitary Confinement
Prosecutors Refuse to Drop Charges Against Texas 11-Year-Old Put in Solitary Confinement
Data from Brownsville ISD seen by The Observer showed its officers made 3,102 student arrests between May 2021 and Nov. 2023. Nearly 60% of those were on felony charges and 76 of those kids were in elementary school.
what the fuck is going on over there
I suspect that being born from the wrong vagina is a crime for those people.
It just explains so many things: from their criminalization of abortion whikst taking State support away from poor single mothers to emprisioning kids who don’t have a mommy and daddy with the right connections or to pay for the kind of lawyer who would extract a massive compenstion from everybody involved in putting this kid in prisions.
Pretty sure avoiding “being born from the wrong vagina” is a popular defense of abortion among liberals.
“It just explains so many things” When you’re a moron any description of a cause will suffice for the outcome.
There is a multitude of reasons why people support abortion. One of the common arguments is that it is better to not exist than to be born poor or to parents that don’t want you (I.e literally the “born to the wrong vagina” argument). This is a widely supported belief and I would say that around 20 percent of pro-choice people I’ve debated (out of hundreds) use it as their primary argument.
Asserting that there is a single reason why people hold a position is absurd.
FYI bodily autonomy arguments have largely been abandoned in academic ethics, because there is just no existing right to bodily autonomy that is sufficiently strong, and we have no basis for arguing that there should be.
there is just no existing right to bodily autonomy that is sufficiently strong
What the fuck is this? Just stop posting.
I already showed that there wasn’t if you actually read anything. Nobody seriously contested it.
Funny that the geniuses here haven’t been able to do something that has been largely abandoned in ethics.
I already showed that there wasn’t if you actually read anything
First, I haven’t found any place where you did this. Second, if you did show that “no existing right to bodily autonomy [is] sufficiently strong”, I think you probably need to also show why the law isn’t in the wrong, rather the moral beliefs of the people in this thread.
Nobody seriously contested it.
I mean, people are. It’s a conversation that’s still happening.
…that has been largely abandoned in ethics.
Gonna need a citation on that one, boss.
Anyone else that comes along can follow along in the main conversation with @[email protected] and myself over here.
“Show why the law isn’t in the wrong, rather than the moral beliefs of the people in the thread”
What law? There is no law in discussion here, and an action being immoral does not necessarily entail that a law must exist to prohibit it. (I’ve already pointed this out, so the fact that you completely ignored it is just laziness)
“the moral beliefs…”
Because it results in a contradiction with their other beliefs. Essentially nobody will ever claim that a contradictory moral system is good, OR that denying a third party the ability to override bodily control in the interest of others (and often that very person, e.g most people think self-harm is wrong) is good. If neither of these are true then a sufficiently strong bodily autonomy cannot be true either.
“It’s a conversation that is still happening”
But there are no actual rebuttals. In fact all you did is go back and assert that bodily autonomy actually is relevant, without even addressing the initial refutation.
This is how every single debate about bodily autonomy goes (or really any bad argument). The person will either reject all criticism without any reasoning, or concede all the arguments and play a pseudo Motte-and-Bailey where they continuously switch between arguments they have already conceded were false. Both are simply instances of a person clinging to a belief that contradicts other beliefs they hold, simply because they think it justifies a result they like.
“Gonna need a citation on that”
Wikipedia says that Judith Thompson is credited with changing the view of abortion to a question of autonomy in the public space. What it does not say is that it changed the view of abortion in ethics. (It didn’t, it was basically a phase that was pretty quickly moved on from. I also edit Wikipedia so I would have put in it if it did)
Now this is not argument of Wikipedia’s infallibility, but it’s absence does show that we have no reason to believe that the public’s perception of abortion is the same as academic ethics.
So with just this absence of evidence, it is reasonable (but not proven) to say that bodily autonomy is abandoned when it comes to abortion. It is also reasonable to say the converse.
If you actually search academic literature, for as famous as the bodily autonomy argument is it has surprisingly few defences, even pro-choice/pro-abortion (yes they exist in philosophy) ethicists have criticised it. In fact Boonin is probably the most notable defender of it, but even he concedes that it’s not very good, discarding it in favor of a “cortical organisation” argument (which I in turn think is an arbitrary selection of a stage of human development that itself doesn’t grant personhood any more than being a human organism).
And again the absence of defences, and presence of criticisms makes it more reasonable to think that it is not well accepted.
As for an actual citation, meta-philosophy isn’t that popular of a field and you just have to be familiar with the topic to know what I’m referring to. As someone who does research, I can tell you a huge amount of information you want or need isn’t neatly collected and more often than not doesn’t exist. It could be that there is a vast swath of pro-choice ethicists who use bodily autonomy arguments, which are awfully silent and don’t write papers. But based on the evidence it seems like bodily autonomy is truly not a popular argument outside of motivated reasoning by lay persons.