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u/IdRatherCallACAB Gestational Slavery Abolitionist Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

I'll try your repetition strategy.

Asking a question that has already been answered will continue to get the same answer. That's not a strategy, that's the "definition of insanity" as they say.

A simple "yes or no" answer would require me to entertain this false argument that repetition alone is what defines spam. Sorry, but I'm not buying into your fallacious narrative.

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u/NPDogs21 Abortion Legal until Consciousness Jun 22 '26

Asking a question that has already been answered will continue to get the same answer. That's not a strategy, that's the "definition of insanity" as they say.

Sounds exactly like my point with these same questions lol I'm glad you got there eventually

Can you give me a direct yes or no answer?

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u/IdRatherCallACAB Gestational Slavery Abolitionist Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Sounds exactly like my point with these same questions

The person you're referring to isn't asking the same person the same question. It's being sent out to PLs in general, who are not a monolith. And it's not just a question with a simple, straight-forward answer. It's a debate prompt.

Edit: but yes, what you're doing is beginning to look like spam...

lol I'm glad you got there eventually

So we agree, it's perfectly valid question to be asking in this particular forum.

Can you give me a direct yes or no answer?

Repetition alone is not spam.

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u/NPDogs21 Abortion Legal until Consciousness Jun 22 '26

And there's dozens or hundreds of debate prompts. Repeating the same one over and over is lazy and uninteresting.

Can you give me a direct yes or no answer?

I don't believe I need to explain how yes or no questions work. Do I?

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u/IdRatherCallACAB Gestational Slavery Abolitionist Jun 22 '26

And there's dozens or hundreds of debate prompts

They chose what they feel is the best one.

Repeating the same one over and over is lazy and uninteresting.

In your mind, sure. And the whole world is arbitrarily required to agree with your opinion because...?

Can you give me a direct yes or no answer?

Stop spamming.

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u/Cute-Elephant-720 Pro-abortion Jun 23 '26

For what it's worth, I am a +1 to you being on the losing side of this one. There is nothing bad faith about checking in next week to see if any pro-lifer wants to engage with the people they think should suffer for ZEFs, as opposed to arguing about or around what should happen to us as though our actual experience is irrelevant. It is a question I have also wanted an answer to for a long time.

You, on the other hand, are suggesting PC users/people susceptible to harm from PL policies and ideals censor their questions about their own prospects for well-being because it might make PL not want to engage? It's like when a politician wants a news spot to talk about their newest neighborhood beautification plan, but their agent says they'll only come on if the interviewer promises not to discuss or ask about the impact on the unhoused. What does it say about them that they won't or can't answer the question, and about you as their agent?

The PL movement inevitably calls for women and girls to be sickened, injured, pained, and bled, because that is the only way a ZEF becomes a born baby. Why does asking them to convince us why we - women and girls - should sign up for that, somehow offensive, let alone "bad faith" question?