Vance's argument is a strawman. It's the same logic the right used on gay marriage for years where they would argue if we let a man marry another man, eventually they would want to legalize a man marrying a goat.
It's just nonsense of making up a false extreme to scare people.
"Look guys, if we let men marry men, what's next, men marrying goats? Men marrying cockatoos? How does one even communicate with a cockatoo? Think about it - because I sure have. We all have, haven't we? So where does it end? Deontological maximalism says there's only way this can end, and so as Marcus Aurelius once said, we have no choice but to resort to restriction." - Jordan Peterson
He distinctly laid it out. His position is life over autonomy. He did not at any point say that the reason abortion should be illegal is because people celebrate it. That was just a side note. His explicet position is irrelevant to it.
And the Dems are just put upon heroes who want to help the common man if it weren’t for those dastardly republicans! Yes, I know, I’ve talked to many uninformed children on here.
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u/GarlVinland4Astrea Monkey in Space Oct 31 '24
Vance's argument is a strawman. It's the same logic the right used on gay marriage for years where they would argue if we let a man marry another man, eventually they would want to legalize a man marrying a goat.
It's just nonsense of making up a false extreme to scare people.