Abortion?

True dat.  But there is a happy medium between funny and intentionally offensive.  I am not always sure where that middle points is (and I often miss), but I believe that it is courteous to at least try.

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lol - agree with that too.  I'm just one big agree-machine today.

Maybe we should all just relax a little.

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It's not the joke that is offensive - it is the making of the joke.

I am all in favor of mocking religion, and I consider no subject off-limits for humor - but I am also in favor of common courtesy.  This population is populated with a large number of very religious people.  Knowing that, posts/sigs/jokes whose sole raison d'etre is to offend religious people is simply rude.

Offending somebody by speaking your piece or expressing your opinion in a discussion is one things.  Going out of your way to make people mad - that's just rude.

Clark Kent wrote: Pmoney wrote: <long post> An intelligent post deserves an intelligent reply.  Give me a couple of days to think it over.

Sure.

Now, I know that there were still some people trying to say that a growing child is still part of his or her mother's body.  How do you explain that when the baby has unique DNA, an often different blood type, independent organ systems (once enough time has elapsed for development), his/her own unique brain waves, and the mother has no control over its movement?

And for whoever it was that was wondering when a human is a human...I personally believe that life begins at conception. All the blueprints (DNA) are there for that unique individual, all he/she needs is time.  Why isn't the zygote a person at that stage?  I guess I'll go smash some bald eagle eggs if they're not really eagles yet, protected by law... (Explanation: It sometimes seems that humans care more about "saving the seals" than our own people...not to say we shouldn't care about other animals, just that things need to be brought into perspective to human life vs. other animal life)