# Double Standards Around Abortion \[split\] **URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/double-standards-around-abortion-split/81325 **Category:** Society, Government, and Economics **Created:** [May 12, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/double-standards-around-abortion-split/81325 "2025-05-12T10:47:50Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 123
### Author: ![Ichthus77](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/ichthus77/32/446_2.png) [@Ichthus77](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Ichthus77) #### Post date: [May 16, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/double-standards-around-abortion-split/81325/123 "2025-05-16T12:58:05Z")
> [@Maxx](#): > > equality between a fully grown woman and an unborn fetus Yes. They are both capable of valuing (affirming value), and hunger to be likewise affirmed/valued. When this hunger is not met, they experience the same anxiety, and do not thrive, even if they survive. > [@Pascal's Wager really is a great argument](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/pascals-wager-really-is-a-great-argument/79479/123): > > That hunger (anxiety) for meaning doesn’t make sense (is absurd) if there isn’t anything to satisfy it. Even more absurd if we withhold our affirmation, if we stomp out any possibility of affirmation before it is even born. If we think satisfaction is impossible (if we bet against hunger being a sign it can be satisfied), though, is it surprising we would want to avoid all anxiety… be life-denying? > [@Ichthus77](#): > > valuer=valuer… we ignore this on pain of rationality. When we violate what we know about the experience of all selves/others…we reap dissonance. If we cognitively distort reality to deaden the dissonance, we die before we’re even dead. And it spreads, unless you stop ignoring the hunger and seek true satisfaction/life. Obviously, we are not meant for mere survival (or insatiable gluttony). --- _[View the full topic](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/double-standards-around-abortion-split/81325)._