Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

The building is the middle finger building in Brooklyn-don't know its real name. The cupola looks kind of like the hoover tower's at stanford univ.

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]

And, Polonius, isn't that the interesting, yet ironic, thing about so-called progressivism? It ultimately leads to a totalitarianism. I think it's due to the progressives confusing liberty with license. Relativism with freedom. And, the abandonment of Natural Law; afterall, when everything is relative, there can't be anything objective.

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]


I said it was through Biology and philosophical I changed my view, not Sociology. It was realizing that life begins at conception, that then led me to the philosophical. If that ball of cells is a human life, which Biology clearly tells me it is, then abortion is the killing of that human life. For me to accept that as legitimate, was for me to then have to accept, on principle, that the willful killing of innocent non-combatant human life was legitimate when someone with authority and power determined it so. Which also meant that human life was not inherently free, or equal in dignity and value, because it was subject to the determining control of those who were more powerful. In other words, we were completely subject to the desire of others. It is might makes right. And, if that's legitimate, then so is Nazism, Fascism, Totalarianism, etc., etc., etc.

So, I disagree with your assessment, Delph.


No, I don't agree. I'd agree if he decided to nothing simply because the woman was pregnant and he didn't want to risk the life of the baby. He should do everything he possibly could to protect the life of the mother. The mother's life is as valuable as that baby's-no more, no less. But, to willfully abort the baby is another story. Thankfully, these cases are so rare (and I know I keep saying this but it's a myth that this is a daily dilemma). Aborting the child will result in the certain death of a life. Not aborting the child does not result in the certain death of a life. Again, all legitimate means should be employed to protect the mother's life, and in the course of those legitimate means the child is aborted then it's a tragedy born of licit action. However, directly aborting the child (and, by the way, there are women who die and are harmed in professional, sanctioned abortion clinics from the abortion procedure, so it's not like a woman deciding to get an abortion is free from serious risk, including death) isn't licit.

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And, he should be dismissed/sued/whatever because he refuses to care for someone who is sick. Being pregnant may be unwanted, but it's not an illness. So, to equate that with someone going to an emergency room while in the middle of cardiac arrest isn't in the same thing.

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Then what are you talking about? And who brought up anything about religion? I sure didn't! Frankly, I wish my fellow pro-lifers would argue our point strictly within a scientific and philosophical framework. Heck, even before my religion got so far up my rear, I changed my view on abortion through Biology and philosophy.

So, Ant63, do us a favor and keep religion out of this ;)

Out of curiosity ( with hopes of having a constructive discussion), what do you understand basic human rights to be? [And, if that's a dumb question, I beg your gracious pardon]

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]

Are you saying abortion is a basic human right?

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Habitual practice?

Kondzior, the habitual practice of pro-lifers in the US is to pray in front of abortion clinics. If my memory serves me right, there have been 4 abortion-performing doctors killed (at least in the last 25 years). Granted, four too many, but it's hardly an epidemic, custom, or habit.

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]

Custom?

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]


Are you saying that if a doctor determines that a certain procedure will cause harm or death to patient, yet that patient wants that certain procedure, a doctor has no right to object to performing that certain procedure? This is hard to believe. It is also hard to believe that any conscionable and ethical person would want to become a doctor under these circumstances.

Let's assume what you say is, in fact, accurate. I have to assume that the grounds of not allowing a doctor to object to performing medical procedures is for the ultimate health of the patient. Regardless if your against or for abortion, the reality is that the procedure results in the death of a human. Even the pro-abortion side has put aside the argument that it isn't the killing of human life; it's why they argue from the point of it being an individual's choice. So, this isn't about saving life, but about taking life. How is this procedure, then, about the health of the patient (and abortions that are performed for the protection of the life of the mother are so rare they barley register statistically)? Or, is this restriction not about the health of the patient, but some other variable?

Life / What is wrong with Poznan? [197]

Delph and other Poznanians, help WMS see the good and endearing side of Poznan. I, for one, happen to love the place and think that the people are generally fantastic folks--but, I've never spent more than a span of three months at a time there.

Life / What is wrong with Poznan? [197]


Apology accepted :) However, your wrong to think there aren't any Americans dumb enough to mix up "your" and "you're." ;)

Life / What is wrong with Poznan? [197]


Delphian, I think you owe us Americans an apology :)

News / The cross in Polish parliament - Does it bother you? [100]


My home is not church but I got crucifixes all over the place :)

Right, the Polish Constitution says that no religion should be favored, but also says that it is beholden (wdzięczni) to its christian cultural heritage. Like all law there is synthesis needed here. The constitution regards the Polish nation as having an obligation to its christian heritage, but also realizes that others should be free to worship as one pleases (I would argue this regard for religious freedom is very much rooted in Christian thought and history--regardless of the historical blemishes of years past). In other words, the Polish Nation, in its constitution, is saying it citizens may worship as they please, but as a nation it recognizes its Christian (read Catholic) roots as having a special place in its history and culture; which it undeniably does.

How exactly is it an abuse to hang a crucifix in the Sejm?

News / The cross in Polish parliament - Does it bother you? [100]


But, according to the Polish Constitution it does say in the preamble that the Polish nation is beholden to its culture rooted in its Christian heritage. The christian heritage of Poland is predominantly Roman Catholic. Therefore, the crucifix has a constitutional place, if you will, in the Sejm.

News / Multi-culti (in Poland) -- roadmap to disaster? [344]


Yeah, but if Polaków don't start having children, then there won't be enough polaków to care for the needs of Polska. There will always be immigrants willing to fill the population vacuum in Europe and other Western countries.

Work / Need for Public Accountants in Polska? Poland [11]

Understood. Thanks.

Work / Need for Public Accountants in Polska? Poland [11]

Thanks for the replies. cms, are you a practicing accountant? What exactly is a local deal, as opposed to any other employment contract?