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kortilla on Nov 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Foetus 18 Weeks: Lennart Nilsson's prenatal photog...

Why? I can’t see much of an upside there compared to the downsides of being used by both sides of the abortion debate as fuel for the fire.

Simon_says on Nov 19, 2019 [–]

The upside is to score points against your political rivals and point at how ignorant those people in the outgroup are.

wruza on Nov 19, 2019 | [–]

In case the rivals don’t base their position on how it looks, the score may play against itself.

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