/lit/ - Literature

Is abortion ever ethically justified under normal circumstances? By that I mean pregnancies which are terminated out of pure convenience for the woman, rather than because of rape, or instances where the birth of a child would be severely damaging either to itself or to the mother, and would be incapable of maintaining a secure and nurturing environment.

no anti-natalist arguments pls, I'm talking specifically about the morality of the act of abortion, not the ethical position against raising children in general.

>>8233872
deconstruction

>>8192613
I'm too much of a narcissist to kill myself, I'm sorry.

>>7791639
>>7791642
Samefag desperately trying to defend Derrida. I wonder why?

It's a dumb repetition of Heidegger's critique of metaphysics. The problem is Heidegger's critique of metaphysics doesn't really give us anything except for useless poeticizing, that might be comfy if you live in the German hills, but is detrimental to anyone who doesn't have a little cabin they go to.

But out of Heidegger we get radical post-modern skepticism, feminist epistemologies, all because of Heidegger's misguided emphasis on language.

So we have career academics who can get around publishing obscurantist works of philosophy which completely ignore the real world (ie. Ethics). You get this idea that the self is an illusion, so how can you really be responsible for anything? That's a linguistic construct you're re-inscribing because you're too damn metaphysical!

The end result is that these people make a lot of money saying fuck all. But it works because it's easy to write about and easy for others to write about. You'll never have to worry about "Publish or Perish" because Deconstruction allows you to endlessly repeat the same thing: "The meaning of all texts is Deconstruction."

It's a fucking pyramid scheme.

>>7791642
> Women won't give him extra marks for looks but they will still fuck.

His ex-wife literally said he had a micro-penis.
http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/10/camille-grammer-kelsey-grammer-small-penis-video-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills/

>>6693393
>living through language
>post-modernism
Go read a book you uneducated piece of shit

>>6597406
>>What I don't understand about postmodernism is why people bitch so much about it.
What I do not understand is what you said PLUS why do all the ancient cultures did not notice this, since they faced far more diversity than us.
Even a few centuries ago, the countries in europe were disparate with so various languages, believes, cuisines, activities etc. that you could not miss it.

>>6580244
>But abortion is not 'infanticide,' and a fetus is not a 'child.' Anti-choice people just misuse words they like the impact of because it makes them feel more righteous.
just like you use other words to describe the situation, to make it neutral to the woman, ''abortion is just abortion'' and if you see more than this into abortion, you oppress people. This is the traditionnal liberal reasoning that beyond the liberal principles, everything is a tautology.

" sex is only sex'', you can think otherwise, but not bother other people who think tautologically

this is the poverty of humanism right here, you deprive anybody of any right of action, unless the actions are the ones that you lie, and critize people who do not think like the humanists that you are, whereas you do exactly the same thing.
This the hypocrysy of the liberals which shows how well your unease towards your authoritary system.

If you can't, you don't understand Derrida

>>6249261
>people still defining literature as 'entertainment' or 'art'
>mfw they don't realise they're still inside the text

I'm not sure if I 'get' what deconstruction is.

Is it about how traditional structures of meaning disintegrate in the face of an absurd world, or something along those lines?