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You ever watched any documentaries on primates that didn't experience their natural society?
In animals, instincts are inherent tendencies to spontaneously engage in a specific pattern of behavior. Examples of this include a dog shaking after it gets wet, a sea turtle seeking out the ocean after hatching, or a bird migrating prior to the winter season.
"Instinct theory proposes that organisms engage in certain behaviors because they lead to success in terms of natural selection. Instinct theory casts motivation as essentially intrinsic and biologically based. Migration and mating are examples of instinctually motivated behavior in animal."
"To qualify as an instinct, a complex behavior must have a fixed pattern throughout a species and be unlearned. Such behaviors are common in other species. Human behavior, too, exhibits certain unlearned fixed patterns, including infants' innate reflexes for rooting and sucking. Most psychologists, though, view human behavior as directed by both physiological needs and psychological wants."
Definition of murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
1.
a. The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.
b. An instance of such killing.
murder n. the killing of a human being by a sane person, with intent, malice aforethought (prior intention to kill the particular victim or anyone who gets in the way) and with no legal excuse or authority. In those clear circumstances, this is first degree murder. By statute, many states consider a killing in which there is torture, movement of the person before the killing (kidnapping) or the death of a police officer or prison guard, or it was as an incident to another crime (as during a hold-up or rape), to be first degree murder, with or without premeditation and with malice presumed. Second degree murder is such a killing without premeditation, as in the heat of passion or in a sudden quarrel or fight. Malice in second degree murder may be implied from a death due to the reckless lack of concern for the life of others (such as firing a gun into a crowd or bashing someone with any deadly weapon). Depending on the circumstances and state laws, murder in the first or second degree may be chargeable to a person who did not actually kill, but was involved in a crime with a partner who actually did the killing or someone died as the result of the crime. Example: In a liquor store stick-up in which the clerk shoots back at the hold-up man and kills a bystander, the armed robber can be convicted of at least second degree murder. A charge of murder requires that the victim must die within a year of the attack. Death of an unborn child who is "quick" (fetus is moving) can be murder, provided there was premeditation, malice and no legal authority. Thus, abortion is not murder under the law. Example: Jack Violent shoots his pregnant girlfriend, killing the fetus. Manslaughter, both voluntary and involuntary, lacks the element of malice aforethought.
originally posted by: sociolpath
a reply to: Annee
your mother was incapable of raising you as her offspring, therefore you will be incapable of raising your children as offspring. if you agree to kill another mothers child, you will also kill your child.
if you agree that a woman can kill her child, because it is her choice, then you kill that child. as all human intentions are collective.
originally posted by: boymonkey74
a reply to: Cinrad
When that fetus can support itself out of the womb.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: rajas
a reply to: Annee
I want an argument why, not justification of why..
UN law Article 3 " Right to life"
America -- Roe vs Wade.
The arguments against Roe was primarily that even fetuses have an inviolable "right to life" (Art. 3 human rights), and that they would be going too far from the text of the Constitution.
The arguments for Roe was mainly to the woman to decide over her own body, and the individual's choice over the collective right.
i do not blame you for your beliefs, i blame the human species.
do humans consider humans to be held to higher standards than the baboon species?
a murderer does not let his procedure of murder to be observed.
originally posted by: sociolpath
a reply to: Annee
as you i can only say what i believe to be true. your persistence to cling to beliefs that harm your species is something that is not spontaneous in one generation. i do not blame you for your beliefs, i blame the human species.