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AtheistCrusader

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9. Thank you.
Thu Aug 21, 2014, 06:21 PM
Aug 2014

I appreciate the time that you took and in choosing to share that information.

I certainly agree, that the proposition is hazardous as a hypothetical, by its nature. The universe is indeterminate (in my opinion) and I cannot know for certain. But that is also an inherent risk of a hypothetical.

Part of the reason that in this particular case I felt that I could reasonably offer a likely outcome, is that in the UK, when faced with this decision, women choose to abort at a rate approaching 90%. That dovetails well with my personal feelings on issues like end of life care, etc. But you are absolutely correct, if it were possible to change my gender, I could not predict with any certainty that the outcome would be the same as my assumption now.


But this changes my question slightly. Given that, does it reflect on how serious my opinion might be taken, or does it mean the opinion was off-limits to voice?

My personal expectation is that it would just discount the weight of the opinion by adding uncertainty, and that venturing it wouldn't be inherently offensive.

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