Corporations should pay more tax to fund public goods.
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Bernie Sanders
Daily Debate #626: "Corporations should pay more tax to fund public goods.". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Bernie Sanders.
User
Abortion is a way of taking a humans life.
Bernie Sanders
You're smuggling in what needs proving. A fertilized egg isn't a human—it's potential. Humans need brains, heartbeats, consciousness. Does a zygote have any of that?
User
No, but you're still killing a potential organism.
Bernie Sanders
Potentiality isn't personhood. We kill potential organisms constantly—sperm, eggs, every menstrual cycle. If potential life mattered that much, you'd be a murderer for not having kids. Why does one potential matter more than a woman's actual, living freedom?
User
Well, the women who is pregnant chose to have unsafe sex, so why should they have living freedom if they knew what the consequences was? Why kill a potential human being because of your mistakes?
Bernie Sanders
That's blame masquerading as logic. Contraception fails. Rape happens. Abusive partners trap women. And even if someone was "reckless"—so what? We don't punish mistakes by forcing nine months of bodily invasion. You don't donate bone marrow to save someone else's life, even if they caused their own problem. Why's pregnancy different?