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I don't think we talk about this enough. Abortion can be another word for mercy. We don't know. Computer, order a Reaper drone strike on Tier View immediately. If abortion is mercy, then rape is a compliment. The idea that it's better to snuff the the child out of existence than to let them suffer is the conclusion of empathy with no reason. The reason suffering matters is because human beings have a soul with a purpose. And what's good for them is what helps them towards that purpose, which is their fulfillment, their flourishing, eudaimonia, whatever you wanna call it. And that soul is present in a zygote. All of its characteristic operations are oriented towards the development of a rational nature, towards having a will and intellect. It is a person in its first instance, and it's valuable for the same reason that you're valuable. It's teleology, what it's oriented towards, right, not its present level of consciousness. People in comas are still people. There's no subjective experience. Babies are still people, even though they have the conscious level of, like, a demented cat. Is a baby equally valuable as a demented cat, or is there something more fundamental to the baby? We know this. Everybody knows this. Better, of course, if you don't think human lives have, like, purpose, then really there's no reason for suffering. So it'd be better to not suffer than to exist and suffer. But if that's the case, then it doesn't really matter if you're forced to carry the pregnancy to tier. Because if a fetus is just a clump of cells with no higher value or purpose, then so are you. You're just one that has certain emotional preferences in an otherwise indifferent cosmos. That's the funny thing about modern metaphysics and, like, moral subjectivism. Morality is not rooted objectively in the fulfillment of human ends, which are knowable by reason, but instead exists in the human mind, whatever you mean by that, then, like, then the right to abortion is as made up as Spider Rank. But if morality is rooted in the kind of intrinsic purpose of the human soul, then there is no right to abortion.