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sedonaman
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This is one of those statements that you think of a response too late. The next time someone says it, just ask if they started being parasites only after he was born.
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R_C
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Deo gratias
po18guy
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Staring in disbelief? It truly is a non-thinking, stuporous thing to say.how do you answer this?
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jilly4ski
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You might want to respond back something like “Wow, I didn’t realize people were so anti-science, first they don’t know when life starts, then they don’t know the definition of parasite.” Or maybe a more charitable response, "I know you skipped highschool biology, but live begins at conception for all organisms which have sexual reproduction, (instead of asexual) and parasitic relationship requires both harm and different species.
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fix
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Brendan
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That is exactly what I was going to say. Under the biological definition, a parasite is of a different species.
A fetus is of the same species (homo sapiens) as it’s mother. So, by definition, it cannot be a parasite.
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Newbie2
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Perhaps in an allegorical sense, human adults can be parasites living off other human adults.
And adding an incredulous, “WHAT??”, then smiling, then laughing, then saying, “Oh, for a moment I thought you were serious!”.
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MarcoPolo
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My question to such a skeptic would be, in your mind if it was parasitic, so what? If they then introduce some rule that you’re allowed to kill a human “parasite” then their own logic starts taking arbitrary moral license.how do you answer this?
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ProVobis
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My answer: What’s your point?
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bitznbitez
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A perfect response, most succinct and to the point response I’ve heard in a long time. Of course it was dismissed, not to dismiss it would be to admit defeat. Man is not a rational being he is a rationalizing being. Thus you often can’t reason people out of something.
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fix
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Well, yes in some allegorical sense, but not scientifically and that certainly is no term used in Catholic moral theology.
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MarcoPolo
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He_Man
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If they believe that, anyone who relies on charity or government aid to survive is a parasite.how do you answer this?
Neither is a true statement, as Jen pointed out.
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Highwayhound
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This past summer a young fellow firefighter and I sat manning the Pro Life booth at the county fair. He pointed out one of the DVDs to me. You might find it interesting. The video is raw and honest. Here it is:The fact a fellow parishioner who stated this on Facebook. Our senatorial candidate Richard Murdock is a big topic of discussion.
Great points.
I said people who depend on us for care and protection doesn’t make them less human, it makes us less human when we don’t do it.
My response seemed inadequate.
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Bill_7154
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I answer by saying “OK”.how do you answer this?
If the person happens to be open to discussion I will say more, if they are intent on sticking to their mindset and whenever I talk they are not listening at all but simply thinking of what they will say next, what part of their already set in their mind list of arguments for abortion they will say next, I leave it at that. I don’t like arguing or debating with brick walls.
If they are not on auto drive with an already prepared abortion speech the next thing I might say is that it is a human parasite. Then I might say, a 5 month old infant baby, being held in it’s mother’s arms while being nurtured and breast fed is also a parasite. Then I might throw in that a lot of people think that their own relatives are parasites if they happen to be living off of another relatives money.
Depending on how things go if I get this far I would re-assess and consider actually talking about the value of human life and the innocence and helplessness of babies and the incredible joy that parents feel for thier children… and continue on from there…
But if someone is close minded on this issue and it is clear to me that they are I will choose not to engage in discussion with them. If I were to get into a discussion with them and they were clearly not open to listening or hearing anything I had to say on the issue I would consider anything I said to be for my own benefit and recognize the reality that they are essentially ignoring everything I have to say…
Peace,
Bill
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Bill_7154
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I don’t think this is true. I think a lot of people in favor of abortion will deny that a fetus is a human being and stick with ‘clump of cells’, etc… anything to keep their minds off of the fact that a human fetus is a human being.
I consider a human being and a person to be the same thing. I realize the legal argument around personhood and many abortionists taking this viewpoint, but I don’t think that every ‘person’ will acknowledge that human feti (is that a word lol?) are human beings.
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Bill
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Robert_in_SD
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The same rationale supports the killing of any group of people that can be labelled as takers. It’s a disturbing way of looking at human relations. As other posters have already commented, the definition is not scientific. One can therefore conclude that this person’s rationale for killing the unborn child is that the child is not contributing to society, but is instead just a drain on finite resources (never mind the fact that ALL of us were once in that child’s position and we will all be there again as we near the end of this life).how do you answer this?
By this person’s measuring stick, we can gleefully eradicate those with intellectual disabilities and traumatic brain injury, the chronically sick, the elderly, and even the unemployed. Wasn’t that the justification for the Nazi’s “final solution.” They labelled the jews as a “parasitic race.” Hence, they concluded jews were something less than human, and justifiably eradicated like vermin. I don’t usually go to the Nazis for comparison because it seems so extreme. But this description warrants it in this case.
You should tell the person that his or her sociopathic tendencies are showing.
Peace,
Robert
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TheRealJuliane
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Wait, a CATHOLIC called a fetus a parasite???The fact a fellow parishioner who stated this on Facebook. Our senatorial candidate Richard Murdock is a big topic of discussion.
Great points.
I said people who depend on us for care and protection doesn’t make them less human, it makes us less human when we don’t do it.
My response seemed inadequate.
:nope:Very sad. Incredibly sad.
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maryjk
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When I read the title I kind of laughed.The fact a fellow parishioner who stated this on Facebook. Our senatorial candidate Richard Murdock is a big topic of discussion.
Great points.
I said people who depend on us for care and protection doesn’t make them less human, it makes us less human when we don’t do it.
My response seemed inadequate.
But only because my sister called her first child, “my little parasite.” She said it with all of the love in the world. It was just used as a nick name because she didn’t know the sex. Kind of like someone calling their child sweet pea or butter bean. She claimed it gave her an excuse to eat more, because “my little parasite” is hungry. 
But it seems like this guy isn’t doing it with love.
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aragonjohn1
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