• festnt@sh.itjust.works
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        38 minutes ago

        i dont see how the adult pickup truck wouldn’t be a fully built one, since real children aren’t considered fully developed human beings

        plus the pickup truck could be called elderly when it’s parts aren’t working as well.

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          16 minutes ago

          This is where the metaphor breaks down. Cars don’t reproduce through sexual activity or experience a long period of maturity.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          1 day ago

          A fetus technically is a human with most of the parts missing, so is a heart transplant or a strand of fallen out hair.

          In practice though, during the usual period where abortion can happen a fetus is not much more human than a load of semen. Okay, it’s technically diploid, but still just a bunch of cells.

          Refusing an abortion for the life of the “child” in the first few months is like refusing a heart transplant for the wellbeing of your original heart.

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            1 day ago

            i meant a fetus is not just a human with a bunch of parts missing. there are other differences to go with that, like being way smaller and needing another person’s body to survive.

            edit: for example, a fetus isn’t just an adult’s legs, while in the post, the “truck fetus” is the equivalent of that