Ray Longstreet

Stargazing Sun worshipping pandeistic libertarian flea market atheist

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@secularprolife @AATXNow The repeal of Roe v. Wade appears to have led to more widespread use of medication abortions and an increase in the total number of abortions rather than the decrease many supporters had anticipated.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@SearlJk47427 @secularprolife She needs to tell him because birth control is a shared responsibility, both sides are equally responsible for any unwanted pregnancy.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@SearlJk47427 @secularprolife Make what a crime?

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@worldviewdesign @paraschopra Current AI lacks consciousness, but I think that could change within the next 10 to 20 years. IMO once AI reaches and surpasses human-level intelligence and understanding, consciousness will emerge as a byproduct of that cognitive capability.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@TRHLofficial They are witches being burned at the stake by a religious cult.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@SearlJk47427 @secularprolife To be fair she shouldn't have allowed him to ejaculate in her.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@secularprolife @McJuggerNuggets It's not tragic if you value freedom. Imagine a world where couples like this are required to have deformed children. That would be a nightmare. Not even Afghanistan goes that far and they've brought back slavery.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@secularprolife If you truly believe that women have the blood of children on their hands, why sit quietly while they face no legal consequences for such a horrific crime?

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@secularprolife Not at fertilization. It seems unlikely that any atheists would argue that the interests of a zygote take precedence over those of a person.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@secularprolife If this is morally equivalent to an induced miscarriage, then what punishment should be imposed on the mother?

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@PaulDeRego @secularprolife @EqualRightsInst The difference is motive. Killing a wealthy uncle for money is not the same as ending an embryo’s life to safeguard your own life.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@CenterPopulist @Hypatia1776 @secularprolife They would probably say, I laid down my life so my mother could live.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@secularprolife No strong evidence of pain before 20 weeks.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@secularprolife If the living person on fire does not have a functioning brain, then there is no difference. Keep trying.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@MarkGarron51292 @secularprolife Then what is it that created you?

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@MarkGarron51292 @secularprolife Do you think a specific sperm/egg combination created you? Or do you think that any sperm and egg combination could have created the person you are?

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@MarkGarron51292 @secularprolife How could the potential for personhood change? If nothing interrupts the process, the sperm/egg combination will develop into a person.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@MarkGarron51292 @secularprolife I didn’t say sperm or egg separately. I said sperm/egg combo, the moment the sperm first contacts the egg. That’s the first stage of the fertilization process; its potential would be no different from the final stage in this process.

[Ray Longstreet @RayLongstreet]

@MarkGarron51292 @secularprolife Do you think an egg/sperm combo in a test tube is also "temporarily unconscious"?
It has the exact same potential as a fertilized egg in a test tube