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Ironside   
2 Oct 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Who told you that human life is sacred?

Who told you that is not? That is another BS from you. What matters is what you believe in as an adult. In this case you either do or you don't. That's all that matter here.

Hey, I protest I have nothing to do with you habit of running around in circles. That is your problem.

Because I don't agree with the catholic doctrine?

No, because you make no sense.

But it isn't. If a change in the legislation does go ahead that is exactly what will happen.

I don't know what will happen. We're talking about opinions here, not about legislations.
It means that I'm telling you my take on the issue. Other than that nothing much to tell. We can only debate future legislation after the fact not before.

the child's life being put before that of the mother. How can you say it is not?

I can say that is not because all you talking about is only a projection of your views. You cannot judge a book by its cover and you cannot express any meaningful opinion on a law before legislation process is completed.

Putting the child's life before that of the mother would be wrong and illogical as going against sanctity of life. If you really believe that anyone would support such a law you must have been brushing elbows with the wrong crowd.

I have no idea what you are talking about. Nobody forces no one in Poland to have children. I fail to see the point of you bringing some pieces of an unrelated info up.

How do you figure that then?

She'll know for certain that there was nothing she could do. That there were not a medical error at play and that she is not responsible for killing her own child. I would say that a real woman would be given a peace of mind after a mourning period.

On the other hand she could be a confused mess with a "modern" mind but then there is already too late and nothing would bring her mind back. Lost in action.

The real question you don't ask is what about a choice? what if a woman doesn't believe in sanctity of human life? What if she doesn't care? That is the real issue to tackle and very complex at that.

felt

I don't care about her feelings. Sorry, but if she need to kill a child to "feel" better she shouldn't ask for my compassion.

My reasoning is purely logical and consistent. We all need to take a stand somewhere, embrace some belief (well those who matters). What does it matter? Sanctity of human life is a simple concept, easy to grasp with which your either agree or not, or either you share or not. Why Bring the Church into it? Because we share the same concept?

Hell, to be even I should bring in Lenin and Hitler and the 20th century eugenics. Asking where from you got that notion about abortion. Who is closer to your hearth Commies or the Nazis? maybe racists and so on and on ....you got the idea.

Those are childish games I dislike.
Make your argument if you can, if not give it up.

I am not talking about minor disabilities here

If there is one change on 1000 that those major disabilities are just a medial error and are not that major that it is in itself worth to be cautious and go easy with applying an 'abortion' as 'cure'.

Hell, you and the RCC are of the some mind. You got it right.

strike by women which is going ahead on Monday to protest the proposed ban on abortion.

So? They have the right to express their views. The point is too many activist and politicians trying to get their interest going with their meaningless slogans. Hard on ears. On the other hand there were one or two women who made sense - talking about choice.

I'm always happy if there is a good argument to be had or a valid point to be made.
Ironside   
1 Oct 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Again, it all boils down to the question how far you want to go.

No, I told you that it all boil down to whether or not you believe that human life is sacred. Either you do or you don't.

If you do and have issues with my stance. It is you who have a problem. You're confused and inconsistent.
If you don't - we agree to disagree.
Religion doesn't enter into it. I'm not talking about God or religion. Let it sink in!

it is exactly what the battle is about at the moment

Well, said at the moment, step by step, a soft revolution. No thank you! No pasarn! lol.

I think the only person who has mentioned this on the thread is our rabid preacher, Polonius

I'm talking about logical consequences - not about who said what!

the child's life would be put above that of the mother in the proposed new laws,

No one is advocating such a law. That is just a tool in a propaganda war. That is pure no-sense and I'm sorry but I'm really disappointed that you would buy into it.

How many women do you think would want to put themselves willingly through that ordeal, and for what gain?

Mistakes had been made and prenatal tests are far from prefect. What would they gain? - a peace of mind.

You might say that but I suspect that it has more to do with it than perhaps you might think

Is it? Sure, I believe that all human life is sacred and that might something to do with my upbringing. Apart from that I don't make any religious based argument or arguments based on religion and my stance is based on purely logical reasoning.

I find it funny to an extent that you fall back to the 'religion' argument a rebus. By all mean tell me how my logical arguments are not logical because my mind have been "contaminated" by a religious upbringing. (wasn't that religious thought) lol!

Good luck with that!

More than anything I find the stance of the Church and that of pro-lifers, as ultimately selfish.

Well, that is debatable. I say that calling for 'aborting' the children that are not 100% healthy is a pure hypocrisy. what more once you decide that you can make such a decision, that is all goes down the hill. Somebody else would decide that kids that are not blue eyed children are a far game too. (eugenic)Why the poor or people on benfits should be given a break they are burden on a society and should be given a 'late abortion' treatment.

As I said, it all boil down to a simple choice - either you believe that human life is sacred or not.

If you do, it is not your call to say who is gonna die and who is gonna live.
Ironside   
30 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Exactly what I said:

what you said make no sense.

No sun boy, it is about facts - killing children is wrong. If you believe in a sanctity of a human life. If you don't belief that all human life is sacred then I understand your point of view even if I don't agree with it. We're OK!

What I'm against are lies and manipulations that confuse bejeezus out of people. All that beneficial for women laws, women have right to decide about their bodies blah blah.... trauma for women so they have to kill an unborn child to feel better.. That is all garbage not arguments.
Ironside   
29 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

I'm calling your demagogic slogans for what they're. Probability that one of those cases actually become a reality is so low that were it a scientific formula we would call it an exception to the rule.

If a woman's life is in danger and there is no other way then by all means proceed, but that is the only acceptable exception. If you don't agree then I expect that you're for the capital punishment for most crimes, even petty, in favour of duels and such. If not then please do no come back with slogans and hypocrisy as you're clearly confused.

Old men telling women what to do with their bodies make me feel sick.

I respectfully suggest that it might have to do more with the liquids you imbibe than anything else, 'young woman'.
Just for the record, I don't care what women are doing with their bodies, I'm concerned about children they carry which are clearly not a part of their body.

You don't really know your history very well do you?

I'm quite sure that you have no clue what you're talking about.
"
Also Irony, Susan B Anthony et al are not 'early feminists'. "
I don't care, that was only an example that even some radical feminists are not all that stupid.

tpo many humans on the planet already

Sure, jump a lake give a 'good' example. Oh no, you're a hypocrite too! you won't do it.

not really worried about the mother or the unborn child.

WTF that's suppose to mean? You're concerned about everything that doesn't cost you a dime! How many Muslim refuges have you installed your house already? eh?
Ironside   
28 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

So deseases, genetic desorders and rape are the results of poor choices? Good to know.

Demagogic slogans not worth much. Get down from your soap box and talk to me using arguments if you know how.
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Maybe I did take it wrong

You sure did take it wrong.

My stance is simple - to kill an unborn child is a wrong thing to do. That all!

Ironside   
28 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Who are you to say what is benefitial to women?

You Tell me?
That is an argument that I constantly hear that from the lefties. OH! but women gonna get hurt killing children if abortion won't be readily available. Oh they gonna relive trauma unless they'll be allowed to kill a child if that suits them. Boo! What a BS!

Make good choices in your life and probability that you will be faces with such a dilemma is statistically 0.000001! or next to nothing!

Why aren't we allowed to decide for ourselfs what is good for us?

what with all that hysteria and crappy arguments? Decide all you want, you're living in a country that belongs culturally to the western civilization. Civilization that has granted so many privileges and right onto women that is unparalleled in a history of the world. Not to mention others civilizations. Yet, freedom doesn't mean one can act as she or he pleases in everything. There are limits and some of those boundaries are maped and regulated by the law.

Your 'arguments' make as much sense as cry that all laws or limits are impending personal freedom of an individual. Some are and some aren't!

In that case is not only about 'womin'! The shyt is serius! Why only women should have a say?

themself and leave me alone.

That is BS and you know it!

Why this constant 'saving women from the trauma' bs from the pro life side?

What are you even talking about? Don't bring stuff from outside our talk here on PF because that doesn't make sense.

in fact taking the right to decide away from them.

The decision time in such a case is long pass if they look for the abortion clinic. Now they can face consequences of their choices or try to wriggle they way out of it.

Especially when you want to eradicate abortion even when the women life is in danger

I don't!
By the way you took it all wrong if you think that is my line of argument. My stance is simple - to kill an unborn child is a wrong thing to do. That all!

Pro-abortion people are talking about good for women or beneficial for women or necessary for women. Not I!
Ironside   
28 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

That's bollocks.

No, a fact.

There were always ways for women to abort even including herbs.

OK Miss Prissy have it your way - the laws that introduced abortion as a part of a state policy. Both genocidal leftie tyrants, and perverts.

The difference was that the methods were not as reliable and more dangerous.

No, the difference was that it was introduced as part of the package, revolution, no private property, women as public property, abortion as a part of a method to forge a new soviet man.

While other was a tool in an eugenic project to ensure that a superior healthy race can be breed.

There were always ways for women to abort even including herbs

Sure there were always ways to terminate pregnancy. As they're always were perverts and paedophiles or other vices and odd practises. Not to mention all that criminal world of underclass and prostitution.

We are talking about laws in the context of an abortion.
Your problem and problem of many people is that you cannot get your head around that old lie that the law that says that is OK and legal to kill a child is there for the good of a woman. That laws that legalise those practises are actually somehow beneficial and helpful to women. That is the biggest BS there is.

People who are promote those laws, don't give a rat ass for women or they good. Sad thing thought that due to their propaganda there are so many 'useful idiots', goodies two shoes who actually believe in all that crap.
Ironside   
27 Sep 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Duda, fraudulently billed the taxpayer for personal flights

Advice you against slander Harry.

the neo-nazis can just march in another city

Why? Are you trying to say that only Stalinist displaces like yourself and old operatives of the soviet state that flocks to KOD are allowed to march?

By the way - there're no neo-Nazis in Poland.
Ironside   
27 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

We are not going to agree on this I'm afraid,

Sure, that was clear to me from the start. We're not talking to agree or to convince one another to our point of view but to exchange our opinions.

Not life as I see it anyway

I think that life is better than death.

If I wanted to turn the tables I could equally say what gives you the right to inflict a lifetime of pain and suffering on the child?

Me? Nothing. I don't have that power. I just think that people don't have the right to kill children just because they can or because law says that is all right for them to do that

As I said two wrongs doesn't make it right. The only justifiable kill is in a self-defence.

Anything else would be murder would it not?

You clearly got this right.

Yes, both are exceptional circumstances, but that is what the law is there for

Regardless what you think those exceptional circumstances are not what the battle is all about. Its about promotion of 'abortion' on request, as that is the end game of the neo-Marxist and these other radicals, you know - scared of crowds.

Once you say that there're exceptions in a protection of the sanctity of the human life. Floodgates are open to different interpretations. Moral guidance need to be clear and to the point. Free of ambiguity - either all the human life is protected and sacred or not.

Iron, you are like the rest of the pro-lifers, putting the life of the child above that of the mother no matter what

Nope, no one is doing that as far as I know. You make no sense.

Who gives you the right to say that a woman should have to give birth to her rapist's baby

Do I need a special permission to express my opinion on a very important matter or any matter at all? I don't think so. Maybe in the North Korea that is the case.

Why should the life of the mother be worth less than that of the child?

Again, you make no sense. You sound as if a mother would slathered in some strange ritual after delivering a child. I assure you that it is no what I have in mind. Never heard about such a practise. Needless to say the Spanish Inquisition has nothing to do with it either.

Possibly the unnecessary mental trauma

Unnecessary? What makes you an expert on what is necessary and what is not? You could have at least add - in my opinion.

meaning chances are, she probably would have survived.

It is immaterial as in fact they failed to run medical tests. You seem to be in denial in that case as to the reality.

Of course I don't condone killing children,

Sure you do and that has nothing to do with religion. Once again as you most likely skipped that part. Religion has nothing to do in my assessment whether or not an unborn child is a child or not.

Religion came into it only as a moral guidance about sanctity of the human life. If you don't share that view on the sanctity of the human life then I understand your stance even if I don't agree with it.

If, however, you agree that human life is sacred and yet you advocate 'an abortion' for whatever reason bar saving its mother's life. You inadvertently condone killing children and your stance cannot be defended. Its lack consistency and logic.

Supremely selfish.

You're being absurd.

By the way - "The early leaders of the feminist movement were against abortion.

The radical feminist Susan B. Anthony referred to abortion as "child murder" and viewed it as a means of exploiting both women and children."

"Alice Paul, who drafted the original version of the Equal Rights Amendment, referred to abortion as "the ultimate exploitation of women.""

Abortion - First introduced by Lenin, followed closely by Hitler.
Ironside   
27 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Do you think it is right to have a child who will have a very poor quality of life?

That is a moral dilemma right there. Once you gonna decide on someone else behave what constitutes a good quality of life or the very right to existence you, where does it stop! Euthanasia, Nazism, Pol-Pot, Stalin all those deeds that hide behind those names and sounds are based on an assumption, on that leap that you're making right there, that you know better and that gives you the right to deicide about matters of life and death.

A fact that you're driven by a good intentions. What you would term the best intention, doesn't change a thing!
In short is not your call unless you can bring dead to life.
That utilitarian arrogance is a nothing new. It has been know to our pagan ancestors, to the ancient Romans and Greeks as well. In fact it is not an alien idea in many parts of the glob. Where the influence of the Christian civilization had has only left a very superficial markings.

A moral superiority of the European civilization had been confirmed by its global, historical success. Technological and material wealth came only as a distant second.

Our civilization by gradually loosing its moral standards. By turning its back on them, is on a good way to lose itself.
A sad part is that some people (even on this forum) would say that is a good thing. Fools!

I would not want to raise a child for it to go through life like that.

Don't do it of you're not up for it! No one is telling you to do what you cannot do. Doesn't necessary means that you have to kill such a child.

Of course it would, but sometimes hard decisions have to be made.

Hard and convenient, not hard and moral.

I also object to the use of the word 'kill'

I'm sure you do. I call a spade a spade. Notice that I have no objected to you talking about an 'abortion' or whatever other euphemism you chose to adopt. That your choice and your views which I respect. Yet I hold an opposite position on the issue and I will use those terms that best stress my views.

feel, mother

Since when feelings justify murder? By the way - what mother? Ex-mother? That's a conundrum.
If a woman in question doesn't believe that she is carrying a child but some inanimate object a bundle of cells for example, shouldn't be swayed or upset by what others say. Simple!

I wouldn't even stop her from doing what she does. I don't understand why people are sometimes blocking those places that're killing children and for same reason are called clinics.

Each person responsible for his own deeds. Hence if the hypothetical person in question would be sure that she is in the right, what's the harm in listening to opinions that differ?

Good parents will always put the welfare of their child first.

I just can hear that convo.
"Listen sweetie we cannot afford to give you a life you clearly deserve. Setting for less wouldn't be fair on you - the best solution you have to go. That is for the best, we're doing that only for you!"

Come on!

As for 'not being up for a task',

There is no shame in that. If you can't you can't. No-one would wish to force a child conceived in such a circumstances on a mother. The emphasis is not on questioning the 'ability' of a mother, nor her fitness to be a mother so to speak. That is not about that all women competition deal that often looks like a pretending game.

That is a deadly serious issue of the life and death.
Rapist should be hanged for all I care. A rape is wrong. Killing children is also wrong. Two wrongs don't make it right. Period.

On the issue of children as a result of a rape. That is a standard leftie counterfeited currency they try to circulate. I don't remember exactly how many pregnancies as a result of a rape are out there but those numbers I have checked some time ago were negligible numbers. It is very rare occurrence. Same pertain to children with crippling or life threating disabilities.

What I mean to say, why talk about that?
Let's assume for the sake of our debate that I would agree that killing children would be OK:
if mother's life would be in danger
if pregnancy would be result of rape
Would you conceded to a law stipulating also - No 'abortion' for any other reason?

We are talking here about exceptional circumstances

Surly even in such exceptional circumstances there is no need for an 'abortion'. There're other less radical solutions. In the age that have more understanding for the most vile murder than their victim/s, that instead of eradicating criminals aims at excusing them, such a radical approach to unborn children seems unduly harsh in my opinion.

The baby did not even have a brain, there was no chance of survival, so what possible reason was there for the pregnancy to continue?

Well, no machine or doctor is prefect, there were mistakes made in that matter. Chillingly often. If the child die anyway - what's the harm?

For the satisfaction

I doubt that many people who derive a satisfaction from a misery of others would care at all for unborn children!

If anything it is completely immoral

Really? Preventing a child from being born is completely moral. Its for its own good. What morality we are talking about?
Hypocrisy?

That Doctor's opinion

His educated guess. He is not a prophet and couldn't guarantee of the outcome. Is pretty irrelevant in relation to the past events, flaming even. What happened was simple - she complained, they ignorant it. She lost her life. Would they run complex medical check up on her the outcome might have been different. Did they requested such a check up? I don't know.

That Doctor's opinion was required so that lessons could be learned

What lesson? If a woman complaining about some problems and demands an 'abortion' - medical stuff should be automatically required to do that? That practically an unrestricted abortion. Disgusting!

Or - run complex tests? Lesson learned. Good!

then that if someone female in your family was unfortunate enough to be raped, you would want that person to have the child

Sure, I'm not a hypocrite.

Plus, from the pro-lifer's point of view, if all abortion is wrong, how can you justify saving the mother's life over that of the child?

I would rather call myself someone who 'understand' rather than pro-lifer.
I understand that unborn child is not only a bundle of cells. That is a fact, that has nothing to do with Church, religion or whatnot! Some people don't get it some don't care.

That fact has it's consequences this time that has all to do with a religion and morality. If you believe that - do not kill - is something you're on board with, you cannot condone killing children.

Meaning voting for those people who would amend laws - its simple really.

To address your question. The difference is in the aim of the doctors, in their intention. They aim to save mother's life not to kill a child if in the process of saving her life, child dies that too bad.
Ironside   
24 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

so the mother can decide what is in the best interests of her unborn child.

Why mother? In the Roman times it was father that could decide about fate of his children.
Seriously, do you think it is right to kill someone right off the bat just because you can? Just to save your self some grief later?

this is something that will affect her for the rest of her life.

Because if she would kill her own child it would not affect her at all! She just shrug it off just like that!

with no regard given to the mother at all.

Nobody forces mother to rare her child or to care for it. If she is not up for a task, she can give it up for adoption or whatnot! You're full of drama! :)

painting women that do so as callous and evil is plain wrong.

Some reverse psychology here, redundant. Killing children that cannot even defend themselves is wrong. Period.

But I think if a mother decides after hearing that grim truth, not to have that child, that should be her right.

No, killing children is wrong. Once you decide that you have right to kill someone because you can and it is convenient to you when does it stop? Next you know it could be you in that redundant human waste category that can be and should be easy discarded.

To be forced to go through with it against their wishes though, is nothing short of barbaric.

No, it is moral and human. You propose something that is clearly a backwoods backlash to the philosophy best emphasised by The Tarpeian Rock!

requested.

That the key word here. That what it all about! That case has been used to bring forgather laws that would grant people an abortion if requested.

Ireland's leading obstetricians

Highly likely? Meaning, maybe maybe not.

I think there is

That is your opinion.

All to no avail. Women will still undergo abortions

That is not an argument, but a logical fallacy! Crimes are still being committed regardless of the laws. Should we abolish laws as they clearly do not prevent criminals from committing crimes?

Maybe that statement didn't suit your pro-life views?

My views have nothing against an aborcion if mother's life is in danger. The point is they didn't know that because they didn't take her complain seriously, saving money and all that.

Would you advocate

Irrelevant!
Ironside   
24 Sep 2016
Off-Topic / What is funny about this picture? [31]

Looks more like anti-catholic poster rather than anti-immigrants.

Indeed, that looks quite out of place and to be honest look weird. I suspect that that is what it is anti-Catholic propaganda poster pretending to be something that is not. Nowadays, you can create that kind of thingee on your PC, take a picture from one source, replace original message with something entirely else and vole!
Ironside   
21 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

that a woman who has been told her child is going to be born severely disabled is going to think about the inconvenience of it all?

So what does she thinks? ****, lets kill that monster? I would rather say that what she think and what she does depends on an idvidual faced with such a tragic reality.

If she is to have a real choice not a token one, she should be told the truth, even if that hurst. She wouldn't have remained unscorched by that either way. Unless she can do the right thing or not.

What she doesn't need are all those humanitarians that are falling over themselves to help her - over her dead child body.

There was a case 2 years ago when a Doctor was fired from a Warsaw hospital

That was a complex issue that boils down to an illegal action of ideologically motivated politicians and an intrigue.

Now can you tell me in cases like the one above, what possible reason there can be for allowing a woman to continue

Do you mean to say that such a woman should be forced to terminate her pregnancy?
The reason is simple, doctors are humans as well and as such they have the right to refuse to 'terminate' a life. I'm sure there is plenty of other doctors that would only to happy to do it. What's the problem?

No of course it is not the child's fault,

Do you think that it is the right thing to do? To kill an innocent child?
Frist of all pregnancies like that are an exception to the rule, used as an argument in discussion to further that ideology that claims that it is OK to kill a child and not OK to kill a degenerate criminal. Madness.

From a moral point of view that has no legs, the same goes for a logic, it is illogical as every heretical ideology.
I say only that rape is a crime. Children shouldn't be killed. Both things are wrong.

It has happened as in Atch's example

You should read what I have to say about it. Yes, medical error are nothing new and might happen in the future. Should we ban hospitals or doctors?

No it can't but the Church has influence

Good! Bill Gates has influence and is cosy with a government, same goes for the mass media, celebrities and personalities! Is there anything wrong with havening influce? Is that a crime?

Not to mention politicians and political parties.
So what?
Ultimatly people are voting parties to power or are voting them out......

Her husband Praveen said later

I mean, so what? I'm sure that it was terrible to him and his wife. Every medical error that leave victims behind is a inhuman terrible thing.

Could you stop using that case as a tool to further pro-abortion propaganda?

I have discussed this with you briefly before and you said then that you felt the current law on abortion was enough.

I think that at the present the current law is enough due to political circumstances i.e. there isn't a consensus in Poland to change the law one way or the other.

I think that 'abortion' should be an option only if mother's life would be in danger.
Ironside   
19 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Not solely a medical error.

No, it is a major failure in a medical treatment. That's plain enough to see.
Do you claim to know what would have happened IF they would go on with that procedure you all seems to be so fixated about? I don't know and no one knows. the end result could be well the same. The right question what she was doing being pregnant while after miscarriage and with her sickness.

If she can't have kids, then why keep her alive? (the "pro-life" view)

If doesn't runs about and cries daddy - kill it! (the pro-choice view) That is the root of all evil.
Ironside   
19 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

No it's the truth.

I think you're confused.
Here is the right answer -

The medical team did not detect that Ms Halappanavar was suffering from septacaemia

A Medical Error that was the reason for her dead. That is really low that that tragic accident has been turned around to be used as a tool in the ideological warfare.
Ironside   
19 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

could be forced into giving birth to a severely deformed child

Well, that would be mighty inconvenient wouldn't be?

having a child which is the product of a rape

Why? That child is guilty of the crime. Would you be in favour for a capital punishment for murderer's children?

and a child whose life would be put before that of the mother in a medical emergency.

That is an old lie that is always used by the leftie propaganda. Not factual at all.

going to stop women having abortions.

Like al the laws, the police and all that legal trifle and carry on haven't stopped criminals from committing crimes./

I don't think the Church should have the right to force women into those positions.

the Church can do nothing on its own. Cannot implement laws or police them. In that regard depends on laymen, on people on the street to vote such a people and such laws as they find agreeable.

That obsessive fear of the church is not well founded at all. It is an irrational feeling - nothing less and nothing more.
Ironside   
19 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

The Catholic Church is run by sexual deviants (since celibacy is not normal or natural).

Are homosexuals deviants too? tsk tsk

A full ban on all pregnancy terminations is about women being breeding stock and nothing more.

Boohoo! Use some more big meaningless slogans while out of real arguments. I can do it to - all evil people murdering unborn children should be ashamed of their own wickedness.

normal women who object to having the Catholic Church and Parliament telling them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

How but they can do whatever they like with their bodies. At least in Europe, thanks largely to the civilisation that exist mainly due to the Catholic Church's influence. However they're not allowed (or shouldn't be allowed)to take a life of another human being.
Ironside   
1 Sep 2016
Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [241]

Poland's historically lopsided social structrue is what's wrong

Yes and Nay!
No, nothing to do with nobles and only 10% citizens able to vote is still better then all countries in the world until USA or Britain (in the second part of the 19th century).

Yes, It has everything to do with the WWII and its aftermath. Poland as Soviet colony government directly form Kremlin with installed middlemen, that consisted traitorous scum, minorities and such. That supposed to be 'Polish' government.

More than have territory of Poland have been stolen and incorporated into the Soviet Union directly, populace from those lands have been treated forcibly into lands taken from Germany.

Rapid industrialization followed in 50' and 60' with growing cities and towns, people have been uprooted, brain washed with agnostic, soviet propaganda, no élites to speak off, or rather what's left of them have been marginalized.

People mainly form rural areas have been ashamed of their often very modest origin, custom, song and dance have been all but forgotten.

That is miracle that so much survived.
Slowly that lost trove of very rich and vibrant culture is been rediscovered.

Comparing histories of Ireland and Poland is like compering apples and oranges.
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Ironside   
26 Aug 2016
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

At the present time, who would you be defending it from?

Honestly if you ask such a question you're missing the point already.
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Either that or you think you should have the right to shoot anyone breaking into your home?

Sure, why not?
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Why?

Just because it is the right thing to do.
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but with the crime rate being so low

You mean crime rate with a firearm involved. As if that would make any difference to a victim. Please.
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Nice try Iron

Well, go back to deaths related to traffic accidents. You haven't addressed that one in any sort o logical and satisfactory argument./
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It really isn't that.

In my mind it is. After all that would explain neatly why you're grasping at straws fending off my well formed and logical augments:)

It isn't a 'cool' reason to be sure but I'm not going to hold it against you.
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Plus, road deaths would be reduced but not prevented.

Ban the cars, every time you drive your car you're creating a potentially dangerous situation for yourself and others.
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but people who do that don't do it with the intention of killing someone, even if that is the end result.

That worse, in the way guns are safer than cars!
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Have you ever been in a situation....

As I said, that is not about me, its about principles... Also I'm not going to post my personal experiences on a internet forum. Especially that it doesn't serve any purpose and doesn't further our debate. I propose to focus our talk on few key issues, because in my opinion we are going in circles returning to the same pivotal points again and again only dressing it differently. That is if you feel like it:)
Ironside   
26 Aug 2016
History / Conscripted to German Army, then the British Polish Free Army. How? [12]

I am trying to find out how he came to leave the German Army, and then how he came to join the Polish Free.

You should have asked him. I'm sure he would be able to provide you with the most accurate information. You can't expect complete strangers to know about your father life more than you with a much of a detail? Are you for real?

My father lived in a town just to the NW of Lublin.

Where exactly? Anyway check that for yourself might be helpful:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_in_the_Wehrmacht

the "Volksdeutsche".

You too, would benefit from reading that wiki note.
Ironside   
21 Aug 2016
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

But this time it's not multicultural country

Multicultural doesn't mean what you think it does. Multiculturalism states that all cultures are equal. That there is no need for immigrants to assimilate, embrace value and culture of their new country. Its rather majority and a new country should accommodate newcomers, an so forth.

what you think about is color. You mean to say that there is no millions of non-white people in Poland. So what>? Go to Africa, go to India, Go to China. Muslim countries or Japan. Non of those have many differed race in number or their territory. Why don't you go and troll them>?

That is some BS you spew!
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are mostly people who don't like foreigners

Have even been in Poland bud? I doubt that! If you have you're dumb as an ashtray.
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while polish people are have jobs and working in many others countries

So are Indians, are you pestering them with your ignorant trolling too? Gees if you want to troll get some brains.
Ironside   
21 Aug 2016
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

That should be changed because you feel you should have the right to be armed? You value your personal freedom over peoples' lives?

The right to self-defense is the most fundamental aspect of individualism. Even if it doesn't benefit the collective because an individual matter more than collective.

Defending your life is a basic human right and a basic moral good. All dictators and tyrannies started with taking away guns from the people.

Soviets, Hitler's Germany and so forth.
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You haven't given me one good reason in support for gun ownership

Happy now?:)
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only that you feel it is your right to have one for self-defence purposes

No, I feel that a free citizen in a free country should justify his shopping habits.
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Someone breaks into your home so you shoot them? I think it would be you going to prison for a long time.

The law should be changed accordingly.
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People in Poland don't need them for self-defence either,

That is not a question of a need but of a right. I think Poles should have that right given back to them.
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Why do you think that Poland does allow gun ownership for self-defence but on very strict grounds?

Because law and mentality in Poland is pretty much in a grip of what I would term as post-commie withdraw syndrome. That changes slowly.
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When people die as the result of crashes, those deaths are accidental, people do not purposely take their cars and go out with the intention of using them as a means to kill people

Well, sometimes they do take their cars and use as means to kill people. Example of France spring to mind.
If you die, you die. I'm sure those people don't care if they have been killed with a gun, a care or a hammer.

The latter is the most cited cause of dead in the USA, ahead of ah so deadly rifles. according to FBI roughly twice as much people have been killed with fist, legs, hammers than with shot to dead with rifles of any kind:

ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/table-20
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If numbers are so important to you, what happens if number of gun deaths exceeds those due to car accidents?

Nothing, I was asking you because it was you who have been talking about mortality rate as an argument. I think I have aptly turned table on you and expected your real motives. Irrational fear of guns.

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Come on Iron, it's not practical and you know it.

It is a very practical solution. Often defenders of the nature are using it. Had been using it before their case have been overtaken by commies from the on side and special interest groups from the other.

Trains, trams, public transport is generally cheaper, most effective, saves resource and reduced number of a road casualties. That is an irrefutable fact. On the other hand a car is more convenient, individualist means of transport.

I have nothing against cars. On the other hand I think you should if you want to remain consistent in your reasoning?
Either you care about number of dead or you don't!
Seems that you don't!
Conclusion is simple - an irrational fear of guns that you simply justly in that way. Do you think that parents who lost their kids in that terrorist attack in France - say - at least they my beloved child had been run over by a truck rather then mowed down by the terrible terrible gun.

Ridiculous premise.
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But if I were to die in a car crash, it would be the result of an accident, not a deliberate act.

:D That is a good one Chemikiem. I lest I die from a good tool misused by some drunk dikehead, not from one of those terrible, awful, evil guns made for killing. That funny! :DDD

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Do you think Poland would benefit as a country if it's citizens were allowed to carry guns?

I'm certain, plus that is what a free country should do.
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The whole thing is ridiculous to me,

Yes, because you hail from a class society and doesn't see anything wrong with a fact that those on the top have their security people armed protecting them and so forth. They have no problem with owning or obtaining any gun that would like to have.

Plebs on the other hand that is either different matter. They should know their place and obey their betters. Let scare them with a tall tales of evil guns.

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You live in a safe country.

Don't be silly. Even the most safe country in the world is only relatively safe..
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Do you feel that unsafe where you are living such that you need a gun?

That is not the question of feelings or needs. ~It is about principles.
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should justify

Shouldn't justify - typo.
Ironside   
21 Aug 2016
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

But you can make it less easy for them.

We're going in circles. What difference does it make easer, harder, an ax instead of gun. Where is a will there is a way.

On a whole you cannot justify guns restrictions by bringing in criminals. Criminals are criminals they don't worry about laws and rules or morals. Why anyone would make laws for law abiding citizen and worry about criminals - it doesn't make sense.

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To be fair I don't think it would be on the same scale either, but there would be an increase in gun deaths

Possibly, that could happen, that stand to logic. Want is more precious? What ranks higher - freedom or life?
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This argument has been used many times by those in support of guns.

Probably because it is a very good argument. One that exposes lots of hot air about guns and cut to the chase.
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Cars serve a necessary purpose

I disagree, trains, trams, buses, planes could be used instead. The only reason you would be rather using cars is a personal comfort.
It is easer to you to use a car, plus you are familiar, used to it. So you ignore dangers and risk or rather you take it as a part of a parcel.

Why? Because in your mind benefits of owning a car overweight risk that causes.
That is. There is no any other reason.
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They are NOT necessary

That is what you believe in. I disagree. That is only your opinion and point of view. S one you're entitled to of course but no better or worse than other opinions on the matter. I would like to hear compelling arguments that support your opinion. :)

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Nobody actually needs to have one.

Once you start making decisions for others, where would you stop?
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What benefits?

Benefit of leading your life in a considerable freedom. Benefit of having an option. Benefits of self-reliance....
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Too damn right they would!

Fear doesn't go hand in hand with a reason.
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but my chances of being shot with one are very, very low.

That wouldn't change. After all your changes are much greater to be killed in a traffic right now. I doubt that would change with guns around.

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That seems to me to be quite logical reasoning.

It is logical reasoning but for it to make a compelling argument you would have to be consistent. Remember cars, reads, accidents? Ban cars, ban guns - completing argument. Guns - bad, cars - ok - no argument.

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You really think crime stats wouldn't increase?

Not long term.
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Having a gun does not guarantee your safety

Nothing guarantee your safety. Having a gun even odds and gives you a standing change to defend yourself. Why would you begrudge people of chance to do that?

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Ironside   
19 Aug 2016
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

It's not a question of that

Of course it is!
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People don't die or suffer serious injury as a result of voting.

Germany 1933? Does it ring a bell? Secession conventions, 1860. ? They don't? Are you really, really sure?
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me as directly as staring down the barrel of a gun

"•A person in the US has better chances of being struck by lightning ( about 1 in 6,000) than of being shot by another person at any given moment. "

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I am only making the point that once that legislation has been passed, then eventually guns would be easy to get hold of as they are in general circulation.

I understand your point. I understood it the first time you used it. Yes, you're right. That could happen than more criminals would get an access to a gun if the number of guns in a country would increase significantly.

However that would be a negligible number most likely.
The point is - if someone want to commit a crime there is nothing you can do to stop them. I don't think that people who are killed with a knife, an axe, baseball bat or a gun care in the slights what tool had been used in causing their demise.

What more, freedom of majority cannot be circumvented, reduced due to action of few.
In other words, collective responsibility is not a very evolved concept and doesn't promote freedom of an individual.
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US, so why given time, would you think that wouldn't happen in Poland?

I think that US and Poland differ in that regard and gun crimes would never spin out of control in certain areas as it is in the USA.

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How many deaths would you consider to be acceptable then Iron?

How many dead in road accidents would you consider too many? What number would make you think about banning cars?#

I think the real question here is - when dangers outweighs benefits? For me I guess it would be the same number people shot as those killed in traffic accidents. Then I would think that maybe something is not right. Fat chance of that happening bar a war.

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weapons training.

That is my proposal, drives need to pass a competency test as well as theoretical stuff, I think that something similar could be done with guns. Once you pass, you can buy.

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People should have the right to be safe

No one is safe, that is a common misconception, you can feel safe but in fact you're relatively safe.

So, in fact your anti-gun argument is based on a false assumption of security. Guns in the hands of your countrymen would make you feel unsafe. OK! I can understand that. Even though I think such a stance is based on feelings, not logic or reason.

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What about the freedom and choices of those people who want nothing to do with guns

They don't have to have anything to do with guns.
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would make Poland a more dangerous place?

No, I don't! Your assumption is that guns are making a country more dangerous place. I think that the opposite is true.:~)
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Fear? Maybe

Check!

Self-defence? Not needed

Check!-----
I would rather be a self-relaying citizen with as many freedoms as possible. Rather than a safe 'peasant' relaying on others for my safety.
Ironside   
18 Aug 2016
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

It is the people carrying those guns that are the problem.

So, if you cannot trust your fellow countrymen to carry guns abound. Why would you entrust them with the right to vote. That has much more direct impact on your life than some irresponsible or criminal dumbass caring a gun.

Maybe there should be selected and trusted group of people that not only would have the right to carry guns around but would also be the only ones with the right to vote.

Hey if you're elitist - I can understand your point of view. Otherwise not so much.
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If they were freely available, there is no doubt in my mind that you would see gun related deaths occurring and an increase in crime. Why would any country want that?

That correlation is not proven. It is only an estimation. There're other countries than USA with guns at homes and without so many gun crimes.

Even if you were right. Lets assume that for a sake of discussion. Why would you penalize law abiding citizens for some what might happen or for some crime that would have been committed with a gun instead than with a knife?

Why one man misdeeds should negatively reflect on my rights, on my freedom, on my choices? Where is justice in that?>
After all I would rather have a gun to defend myself and my family than became victim of a crime. That someone somewhere would use surplus of arms in a country to break the law and commit a crime - that is not a sufficient excuse to curb my freedom. I have nothing to do with it.

IF we take your assumption that all citizens freedom should be sacrificed on the altar of a greater good. Let bring your logic to its natural conclusion. Institution of marriage is beneficial for a society, open relationships, single mothers, gay 'marriages' - not so much. They are creating inequalities, disturbance and lack of stability in a society and generally tends to brings standards down.

All that is allowed by the state in the name of freedom and personal choice. Why make an exception for guns? Either we sacrifice all freedoms for a great good or not!

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What no-one has also mentioned so far, is accidental shootings. Kids are killed every year

Kids are killed due to all kinds accident. People die in traffic accidents. Why not ban all cars and introduce a public transport that would be statistically safer.

No consistency here. People are ready to make all kind of allowances and excuses for cars. Yet they refuse to do the same for guns. Actually there is more people that die in car accidents than to guns. Significantly higher if we remove all that ghetto, gang related shootings.

It tells me that is not about victims or number of victims. Its about victims of shootings. So it burn down to anti-gun prejudices, fear or a fact that such a people don't believe in self-defense.

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The Police and Army are the people who are there to defend the country, not a bunch of trigger happy citizens.

Statistically it is not true.
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Ironside   
18 Aug 2016
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

When you live in a neighbourhood where bullets are flying

Why would there be a neighborhood with flying bullets? People would just go mad from Sunday to Monday, hey we got a GUN! Let shoot everyone. That crazy.

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stab each other with a knife

Actually, a knife in close quarters is as deadly as a gun. Somehow people are not getting stabbed in busses or trams. Why would that change with a gun?

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don't know people in the Polish countryside

I know what I have seen with my own eyes. Some people have guns stashed, don't know how common is that though.
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If you could simply walk into a supermarket and buy a gun?

Even then. Its all your imagination. Anyway is not that simple even in the US. Depends on the state.
Also I don't advocate that anyone could buy a gun like a tomato.

I'm thinking about gun license that all adults could pass (except for criminals, mentally ill). Like a driving license, that would teach you to use a gun, care for it, about law and some training.. There even could be A, B, C categories of that license, one you could but guns to be kept on your property and in your car to transport it to shooting range. Other could give you right to carry it in public. C would be a license for professionals like police officers or military.

Sure the law would need to change. Like you can kill home invader and so forth.
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Rival football ultra groups shooting each other i

Why would they shoot at each other? They don't kill each other with axes or whatnot.
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Or outside of them during Independence March. Instead of throwing rocks hools could start shooting cops.

Eh, would that be that stupid? could they afford guns? If then they would be shot dead, process of natural elimination, that would happen only once if at all.

You're building all these scenarios to scare yourself for no reason.
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Why there is so much gun violence in the US and so little in Poland?

Statics can be deceiving. There are areas in the USA that are much safer than Poland. What is skewing the picture are ghettos, large cities and so on. So all that violence is relative. You can experience more violence in a line to bus in Poland than in some of those towns in the USA.

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Why there are mass shootings in the US and no such thing AT ALL in Poland?

Because mentally ill people are wondering on the streets. Such people they are confined into a mental institutions, medicated in Poland. In the US they roam free. Alas those mass shooting happens in so called no gun areas. (gun-free zones)

Idea is no guns, no shootings, but that means that law abiding citizens are unarmed and criminals and nutters know about it.
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Iron, you don't live in Poland

Where you got this idea from? Come and visit me in the Royal Palace in Warsaw.
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people here think

Some people, there are others that think differently.
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Whom?

I'm not going to give instructions for an illegal activity. Please.
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I don't

Sure, have you been ever interested remotely in guns or anything military? Nay? So, why would you know?
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Yeah, sure, let's protect the Constitution and the Constitutional Tribunal

Soviets has to go!
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Btw, once, in highschool

Did you even seen a gun with your own eyes? Not on TV. :)
Ironside   
18 Aug 2016
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

I think it would only be a matter of time before guns would be found on the streets and people end up getting shot.

Chemikim, people are getting shot regardless. Criminals have guns and always will have them. Anyway being killed is being killed - doesn't really matter what has been used to do the deed. Its an irrational fear of guns.

So those Polish citizens who want nothing to do with guns would find themselves at risk from those who do have them.

They are facing that risk even now. The police is armed. Criminals are armed. A foreign security forces on the Polish soil are armed.
You are not suggesting that a normal people, upstanding citizens would turn overnight into crazed cold blood killers just because you would given them a gun? Are you? That is an irrational fear of guns and their magical potency, if I ever seen one.

who would Poles be defending themselves from?

From all enemies domestic and foreign. Being a republic Poland needs citizens that would stand up to uphold its principles.

How would you obtain it without one?

You would have to ask. On the other hand if you're local and in a city, you have a certain idea where some illegal stuff can be bought.

I've also never seen and never heard of anyone who would own a gun in my grandma's village or nearby.

Why would they tell you anything? Are you that naďve? That would be a closely guarded secret.

Maf, there are no youth gangs shooting kids in the streets in Poland like in the US.

Yeah and by the guns magic power they would appear in Poland? Really?