That's ridiculous. That's like taking time out of your life to paint the interior of every single house you live in bright pink, even though you say you don't have an opinion on the interior colour of your house. Obviously, you have an opinion that bright pink is a better colour for you to have on the interior of your house, in the same way that obviously you have an opinion that your wife should never have abortions.
After all, if you didn't have an opinion on her having abortions, what would cause you to take action preventing her from doing so?
Right, but I believe you said you don't have any rights of any kind ("I do not believe in rights, therefore I do not have rights."), much as a facet of nature - a simple boulder - doesn't have any rights. How can a boulder have a child? How can it have anything?
If your wife wants the fetus to be aborted, what right do you have to stop her?
Even passing these questions - let's say she wants to have the fetus aborted and you don't. You disallow her from having an abortion on the grounds that SHE SHOULDN'T have the abortion because it will infringe on your "right" to the baby. Therefore, you are having an opinion on what she should or should not do based on your own interests, which is directly contradictory to the statement "- I do not have an opinion as to what other persons besides myself should and should not do."
I am exercising POWER, like the government, or the police. Rights has nothing to do with it. I would physically stop her from having an abortion. I think that adequately answers your question. I'm trying to make this as easy to understand as possible.
Because you don't want your wife to kill YOUR child.
(1) Doesn't this mean you have an opinion as to what a person besides yourself should or should not do, that is, you don't want your wife to kill YOUR child?
(2) Doesn't this mean you place your own values above your wife's (assuming she does in fact want to have an abortion)? That is to say, don't you expect your wife to be subservient to you by the use of your POWER? Aren't you thereby directly using authority over another human being? If you don't believe in human authority, then by what means are you to disallow her from having an abortion?
On a tangent of a point I deleted, I must say that if you don't believe in property rights, you really ought to stop using the word "MY", as in "MY child" or "MY firearms." If you don't have property rights, you don't own a damn thing.
Point number (2) in my post above is a serious lock-up for this philosophy. Let's say I want to kill you. Under your philosophy, that's fine, but I can imagine you'll have some backlash and try to fight me. But ah! What authority do you have to try and prevent me from killing you? Human authority of any type doesn't exist in this philosophy, therefore there is nothing you can do to stop me from doing what I want to do.
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That's ridiculous. That's like taking time out of your life to paint the interior of every single house you live in bright pink, even though you say you don't have an opinion on the interior colour of your house. Obviously, you have an opinion that bright pink is a better colour for you to have on the interior of your house, in the same way that obviously you have an opinion that your wife should never have abortions.
After all, if you didn't have an opinion on her having abortions, what would cause you to take action preventing her from doing so?
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I don't want MY kids being murdered. Anyone else's, fine.
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Right, but I believe you said you don't have any rights of any kind ("I do not believe in rights, therefore I do not have rights."), much as a facet of nature - a simple boulder - doesn't have any rights. How can a boulder have a child? How can it have anything?
If your wife wants the fetus to be aborted, what right do you have to stop her?
Even passing these questions - let's say she wants to have the fetus aborted and you don't. You disallow her from having an abortion on the grounds that SHE SHOULDN'T have the abortion because it will infringe on your "right" to the baby. Therefore, you are having an opinion on what she should or should not do based on your own interests, which is directly contradictory to the statement "- I do not have an opinion as to what other persons besides myself should and should not do."
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Further, and in a separate thread, you have stated "- I do not believe in human authority."
If you disallow your wife from having an abortion... aren't you exercising authority over her and aren't you a human?
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I am exercising POWER, like the government, or the police. Rights has nothing to do with it. I would physically stop her from having an abortion. I think that adequately answers your question. I'm trying to make this as easy to understand as possible.
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This doesn't answer the full question.
Why are you using POWER?
Because you don't want your wife to kill YOUR child.
(1) Doesn't this mean you have an opinion as to what a person besides yourself should or should not do, that is, you don't want your wife to kill YOUR child?
(2) Doesn't this mean you place your own values above your wife's (assuming she does in fact want to have an abortion)? That is to say, don't you expect your wife to be subservient to you by the use of your POWER? Aren't you thereby directly using authority over another human being? If you don't believe in human authority, then by what means are you to disallow her from having an abortion?
On a tangent of a point I deleted, I must say that if you don't believe in property rights, you really ought to stop using the word "MY", as in "MY child" or "MY firearms." If you don't have property rights, you don't own a damn thing.
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Point number (2) in my post above is a serious lock-up for this philosophy. Let's say I want to kill you. Under your philosophy, that's fine, but I can imagine you'll have some backlash and try to fight me. But ah! What authority do you have to try and prevent me from killing you? Human authority of any type doesn't exist in this philosophy, therefore there is nothing you can do to stop me from doing what I want to do.