• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The religious nuts don’t actually say that the fertilised egg feels pain. Their contention is that the invisible genocide wizard in the sky imbues it with a magical spirit called a “soul” at the moment of conception. Therefore the fertilised egg must to be protected, or the invisible genocide wizard in the sky gets mad.

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      6 days ago

      Yeah the joke of this comic hinges on an opinion that doesn’t exist

      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        Eh, there’s many types of religious nut, and there’s multiple reasons they believe life/consciousness/etc starts at conception.

        All their reasons are wrong, but there’s certainly not just one, and this comic certainly captures some of them.