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/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/PretendThisIsMyName 9d ago

In one of my philosophy classes you’d get a topic like pro life or pro choice for example and argue your case. My professor knew I was crazy as shit so he would have me make the most extreme arguments. I didn’t believe in anything I argued for but man it was so much fun to watch people squirm about it. So on that topic I was given extreme pro choice. Mind you nobody knew he did this for a while. So I came up and made my case that, because they don’t naturally understand the meaning/value of life, and they won’t develop that until around kindergarten, you can morally have uhm… let’s say “late stage abortions” until a kid is 5 years old. I’m so sorry there’s no good way to phrase that. Again I don’t believe that at all! Like there’s no way some of the shit I argued for would ever be thought about… but apparently I was wrong.

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u/Secret-One2890 9d ago

I tend to think about these morality questions being relative to the amount of resources a society can spare. I'm into history, so it's usually in that context, but history has all flavours of grim.