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Chloroform? Board games, might be better. I guess it depends on how your mind works and what area you live in.

An article I wrote on doing hard work and reaping the benefits! https://selfknowledgedaily.com/reaping-the-fruits-of-hard-work-698866ed2faf#.j4flxhws2

I think it is a mistake to use the presence of consciousness or lack thereof to determine whether one has a right to life. At the emergence of consciousness in a fetus, the order of consciousness possessed is also possessed by many non-human animals. At age 2, a toddler has the equivalent consciousness of a grown dog, but we would not consider them to be equally dignified. There must be something else that confers dignity to the toddler that the dog does not possess; either the potential for a higher order of consciousness or the categorical proposition that all human beings belong to a higher order of consciousness. Neuroscience is making some inroads on the subject of consciousness and most scientists believe the cortex and claustrum are where consciousness originate. Stimulating certain regions can either generate conscious experiences or render a subject unconscious. Now suppose that scientists discover a way to selectively arrest certain processes of neurological development to prevent the emergence of consciousness and a rational mind. Would it be ethical to grow non-conscious human bodies for the purpose of harvesting organs for transplantation? If this scenario makes you feel uncomfortable, let me posit a possible reason: living human embryos possess the potential to develop into conscious beings with rational minds without external intervention and it is that intervention which robs it of intrinsic value. @Predicar en desiertos Would you agree that a mother has a duty to keep the baby alive after birth? If so, how do you reconcile that babies both unborn and born require the use of the mother's property (uterus, breast milk, clothing, shelter, etc) to survive?

The woman does not have a property right to the fetus. She has a property right to the egg. If she didn't want to lose ownership of the egg she then has a responsibility to protect the egg. She does, however, have ownership of her actions and resulting consequences. This is why she has a responsibility to care for the resulting child. If she didn't want that, again, she should have protected the egg.

This is very much like a "guns kill people" argument. Government can do nothing without the people behind it. Even a government program to cut government programs? Even a government program to stop our genocide? Advocating for coercion does not violate the NAP, if coerced against first. Are you suggesting that the response to coercion should never be coercion? Cuz that has no basis in the NAP...

A4E, are you kidding me? The West doesn't treat people like equals at all! Several examples incoming...also, disturbing content to follow so prepare yourself accordingly. 1. 1970s: Black woman (in America) on display in human zoo. Woman dies, zoo claims her body, puts corpse on display, inters all remains in 1980s other than her genitals, which they cut off, put on display, and didn't return to her family for interment until 2002. 2. White women gain right to vote in North America in 1930s, black women in 1950s, Native women in 1960s. 3. Tuskegee studies on black men and the deliberate spreading of STDs among them to see how their biology differs when under such conditions. 4. Japanese migrants turned away at British Columbia border in WWII, with the proclamation that "None is too many". Japanese families already living in British Columbia split apart according to surname and all made to move to different Provinces (i.e. if your sister were married and had a different surname, she'd be off to Alberta and you to Ontario, just as an example). 5. Anti-hijab and burqa movements in France and in Quebec, with Muslim woman being stripped at a beach in France by authorities for her "safety". Note that the image given to us in class of this happening was coupled by a picture of Catholic nuns in habit walking along beach in France, no one stripping them. Recent occurrence, I might add. Here, I'll find you the pics... Burqini woman French nuns I'm done for now. Any questions?

We should treat others as equals in order to prove our superiority to animals. We should treat everyone as equals because it's the decent thing to do. We should treat others as equals in order to depart from our violent roots. We should treat others as equals in order that they might reciprocate. We should treat others as equals because it's the most disarming thing we can do, so that peace might come of it. Will that suffice as reasoning for you, my friend? PS: Auditory awesomeness, and I liked this song before it was cool.