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Maybe we can get some real work done by posting a Star Trek joke about abortion. | Maybe we can get some real work done by posting a Star Trek joke about abortion. | ||
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== Appendices == | |||
=== Stating the Obvious === | |||
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Appendix 1: Stating the Obvious | |||
"Debates" about abortion generate only heat and friction, not light. | |||
All light that can be shed on abortion has long since been shed. | |||
No possibility of debate exists. What can be said has already been said. | |||
"There is nothing both new and abortion-related under the sun," to paraphrase lusty Solomon. | |||
The only task remaining is to hate each other until the sun goes out. | |||
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=== Recycling metaphor === | |||
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Close enough. | |||
Green glass beer bottle, brown glass beer bottle. | |||
Dump it in the same recycling bin. | |||
Re-use the glass to contain something nourishing for my friends, or a bitter toxin for my enemies. | |||
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Latest revision as of 06:30, 6 June 2023
Bringing a Gorn to a paradigm fight"
Bringing a Gorn to a paradigm fight
Do you see what happens when one posts sarcastic images about crazy people in politics?
A running debate about abortion.
Maybe we can get some real work done by posting a Star Trek joke about abortion.
Appendices
Stating the Obvious
Appendix 1: Stating the Obvious
"Debates" about abortion generate only heat and friction, not light.
All light that can be shed on abortion has long since been shed.
No possibility of debate exists. What can be said has already been said.
"There is nothing both new and abortion-related under the sun," to paraphrase lusty Solomon.
The only task remaining is to hate each other until the sun goes out.
Recycling metaphor
Close enough.
Green glass beer bottle, brown glass beer bottle.
Dump it in the same recycling bin.
Re-use the glass to contain something nourishing for my friends, or a bitter toxin for my enemies.
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