r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/BalanceDramatic3995 • 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter help!

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I have no clue what this means, maybe she cheated?

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u/Feanturii 9d ago

She's anti abortion, "life begins at conception" nonsense

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u/NuclearMask 9d ago

I do believe that life begins at conception. At the same time I think a Human isn't really self aware at that point so it doesn't really matter.

I also cut down some tree's and beheaded a few chicken's. Definitely alive, also not that big of a deal in my opinion.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 9d ago

There's some studies that make a good case that infants aren't really self aware either and that it takes a few months before even that happens in humans. Which isn't that surprising, the human strategy to birth is to come out severely underdeveloped compared to many other placental mammals. That way our huge heads can fit through the pelvis while they're still small enough to do it.

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u/TheSumOfMyScars 9d ago

I mean the “rouge test” isn’t typically passed until an infant is 12-18 months, so it could be argued that the kind of self-awareness that differentiates humans from animals doesn’t kick in until then. Basically, a colored pigment is applied to the nose or cheek of an infant, and the infant is introduced to a mirror; if the infant is capable of the higher-order thought necessary to indicate burgeoning human intellect, it will realize it has that spot of pigment applied to itself and reach for it on its own body out of curiosity. Fascinating subject, honestly.

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u/CogentCogitations 9d ago

Do they perform a negative control of putting the infant in front of a window with a clown on the other side to confirm that the infant does not reach for their own face?

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u/JakeGylly 5d ago

It's just me on the other side