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Important, powerful.
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Oct 29, 2023 • 50 tweets • 19 min read
@realBockmann @secularprolife I read with great interest your response to my questions about your article on fetal pain. I appreciate your expanding on the three points that you believe demonstrate the cortex is not necessary to feel pain and welcome the chance to clarify why I still think you're wrong😉 @secularprolife No.
The pain matrix was strongly correlated with activation in imaging studies of transient painful stimulation.
The ubiquity of the association led some to suggest that pattern of activation could provide an objective marker of pain (but correlation is not causation). Image
Oct 11, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
@secularprolife There's a 100+ years of research on the anatomical basis of pain. But I think you're really asking: "how do we know the cortex is necessary for pain in humans?" @secularprolife This is the consensus definition that's used for the most part to research "pain." 
Note pain is both a conscious and subjective experience —  it requires:
1 awareness
and
2 the ability to evaluate a sensation as good/bad.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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Sep 17, 2023 • 34 tweets • 10 min read
@realBockmann @RichardDawkins @repreaux @HerbGeraghty We can't tell good from evil (Provine, Baggini), it could just be social reinforcement (Bandura), we can equally look to Kant, Gilligan or de Sade for moral guidance and there's no way to tell if the shoe bomber, KSM, the people who waterboarded KSM 183 times or Hitler were bad @realBockmann @RichardDawkins @repreaux @HerbGeraghty Nor can we explain morality based on observation because IS is not OUGHT (Hume). If there are moral laws somewhere then they must come from a must come from a lawgiver, God (Gray, Dostoyevsky).
Aug 19, 2023 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
Moral disengagement theory provides a useful lens to analyze anti-abortion rhetoric.

Forced pregnancy is rationalized, justified and excused by:
reconstruing abortion bans as moral
evading responsibility
minimizing harmful effects
reducing empathy for those hurt by abortion bans Moral justification makes detrimental conduct personally and socially acceptable by emphasizing its moral purposes.

Here emphasis is placed on "stopping killing." Opponents of abortion sincerely believe they're stopping killing but rarely acknowledge how that is accomplished. Image