The Iron Gauntlet

Obama looked like a man beaten.

Romney vomited up the same bullshit he’s been choking up for the last year.

And now I’m listening to the morons on CNN talk about how Romney was the victor because of his demeanor and “facts.”

… Demeanor? Sure, he was all smiley and energetic. 

Facts? No. Let’s not get fucking ahead of ourselves. 

I’m pretty good at arguing and debating about shit that I know a decent amount about, but the entire pro-life/pro-choice debate is bothersome to me. 

I stand behind a fundamental principle of choice; simply that a person needs to be able to have the freedom to choose what is best for their life. And to me, this principle trumps all arguments for life. I’m not swayed by any pro-life argument anymore, religious or not. 

However, I find it difficult to argue with pro-lifers because they have this one liner that they seem to use universally and it’s always something like, “Okay, so you think women should be able to kill the baby.”

The language they use bothers me because it’s not a baby. A string of cells isn’t a baby. Every cell in your body is a potential human being, so when you take showers and wash away dead skin cells and new cells die, you’re technically killing billions of “babies.” It’s nonsense and I cannot deal with such an argument. However, they do make it difficult to come back at. I just feel I’m at a loss for words with these people lately. 

I’m open to learning new arguments and seeing if I can employ them next time I’m presented with this mundane subject.