Fair enough. So being outside of an airplane without a functioning parachute is not imminently fatal at 1000 feet? 100 feet? 10 feet? But it becomes fatally unsafe at zero feet, when you are in fact observably not alive?
When I say 'consider you dead', I mean that for all intents and purposes, you have taken a course of action that will result in you being dead.
Is the analogy getting any clearer?
Well, after lurking quite a bit in DU land, because of this thread, I decided to try a post.
I was as nice as can be. I tried to engage in a real dialog with no insults. I got 2 posts in and then ZAP! I was a goner. ..and I am extremely moderate. Those guys are the most intolerant people on the net.
When I read the bulls*** they say about FR on there, and then get banned so quickly.. it makes them look like bigger fools than I ever realized.
The freakin' thought nazis....
i understand what you're saying... basically once a series of events begins where only one conclusion is possible or likely, the conclusion may as well have already happened. In regards to abortion, i don't see it that way. that doesn't mean i'm right of course, it just means the logic doesn't convince me. like i said, where you draw the line pretty much determines where you stand on the issue... and unfortunately, one can draw the line just about anywhere.
you might consider yourself dead when you jumped out of a plane with a faulty parachute. others might say it was when you hit the ground, or maybe once you were too close to the ground for the chute to be effective anymore. still others would say it was when you took off, or when you messed up while packing the chute, or even when you took the job.