Un-oh, another Serious Philosopher!
In other words, with me, you’re off to a bad start.
From my frame of mind [and admittedly that’s all it is] an intellectual contraption on steroids! A gigantic general description that just begs for a particular context in which to assess the extent to which the definition you give to these words placed in this order is what all reasonable people are expected to be in sync with.
When is the last time a man was confronted with an unwanted pregnancy? A pregnancy that could play havoc with his life? A job or a promotion on the line, turmoil in family, censure from pro-life friends or colleagues, important plans that need to be shelved.
You’re talking about the community or the nation as a whole. I’m talking about an actual individual who becomes pregnant and does not want to be. Perhaps because of a defective contraception, perhaps as a result of rape or incest. All human interaction involves trade offs between “I” and “we”. And, in regard to abortion, there are clearly conflicting moral narratives and legal agendas all up and down the political spectrum. Why should everyone accept your own political prejudices as the optimal or the only rational point of view? What are you, the last of the philosopher-kings?
Again, a series of assumptions embedded largely in a world of words that make no reference to any specific sets of circumstances in which, once again, we are confronted with arguments passionately embraced by those from the extreme left all the way to the extreme right. And all points in between.
Consider: abortion.procon.org/
My point being that, given different sets of assumptions, both sides are able to make reasonable arguments in support of either the “natural right” of the baby to live or the “political right” of women to choose.
And then the argument I make in regard to individual value judgments here being embedded existentially in the manner in which I construe the meaning of dasein. In particular, the points I raise on this thread: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=194382
My defense is merely the embodiment of my own political prejudices [here and now] derived from the manner in which I construe the meaning of dasein here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=176529
I do not argue that those who are opposed to abortion have a less reasonable point of view. Instead, “I” construe my self here as fractured and fragmented, tugged ambivalently in both directions; as, for all practical purposes, down in a “hole”.
This one:
If I am always of the opinion that 1] my own values are rooted in dasein and 2] that there are no objective values “I” can reach, then every time I make one particular moral/political leap, I am admitting that I might have gone in the other direction…or that I might just as well have gone in the other direction. Then “I” begins to fracture and fragment to the point there is nothing able to actually keep it all together. At least not with respect to choosing sides morally and politically.