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October 07, 2015Evaluating Don Marquis’ Future of Value Argument
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Josh, Tim, and Rachel answer more questions from Ian McGinniss, the president of Dukes for Life at James Madison University.
Questions:
01:02: What do you guys think is the distribution of pro-choice beliefs on campus?
14:20: What is your take on the Don Marquis Future of Value Argument against abortion?
58:07: Do you think there is a way to restructure the Marquis argument into one that’s more interactive?
Related Links:
Equipped for Life Podcast Episodes 14 and 15 on relational apologetics.
Don Marquis for the Journal of Philosophy: Why Abortion Is Immoral (PDF)
Equipped for Life Podcast: That James Franco Video
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October 06, 2015Responding to “You Want to Force Women to Stay Pregnant”
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Josh, Tim, and Rachel answer more questions from Ian McGinniss, the president of Dukes for Life at James Madison University.
Questions:
00:00: Is A Quiet Place a pro-life movie?
02:28: What is your approach when pro-choice people say that they don’t want to be forced to stay pregnant?
09:12: How did all three of you get involved in the pro-life movement?
20:24: What would you say to groups who are dealing with pushback from their campus administration about doing pro-life events? How would you handle those issues yourself?
23:43: How would you describe the difference between legality and morality, especially for Christians who sometimes think that everything that is morally wrong should be against the law?
30:59: What do you do when you’re talking to a passive listener who doesn’t really want to explain their beliefs?
Related Links:
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Thanos Would be Pro-Choice
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Pro-Lifers Aren’t “Forcing” Women to Stay Pregnant
Rachel Crawford for the ERI Blog: Stop Using “Trust Women” as an Abortion Trump Card
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: On Virtue-Signaling
Josh Brahm for the ERI Blog: My Pro-Life Journey Began in Front of This Abortion Facility
Amazon: Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights by Dr. Francis Beckwith
Alliance Defending Freedom’s Legal Request Page | 1-800-835-5233
Equipped for Life Podcast: Responding to Free Speech Violations on Campus – An Interview with Casey Mattox from Alliance Defending Freedom
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Dialogue Tip: Tell Them That They Can’t Offend You
The Amazon link on this page is an Amazon Affiliate link, which means that if you click the link and then buy the book, ERI will get a small kickback from Amazon.
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October 05, 2015How to Respond to Extreme Skeptics
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In this episode Tim gives a fuller explanation of the argument Josh presented in the course about avoiding burden of proof shifts, and responds to likely counter-arguments. For example, doesn’t the dialogue style Tim is teaching allow the pro-choice person to have too much of an advantage, or allow them to take too much control of the conversation?
Related Links:
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Circumventing Philosophy Hell
Equipped for Life Podcast Episode One: When They Bite the Bullet
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Gettier Problems
The Cove Documentary
Black Fish Documentary
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: On Virtue-Signaling
Equipped for Life Podcast Episode 24: Social Media Dialogue – Part 2: How to Think About Virtue Signaling.
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October 04, 2015 ERI Staff Discuss Their Most Common Dialogue Mistakes – Part 2
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In this episode Tim gives a fuller explanation of the argument Josh presented in the course about avoiding burden of proof shifts, and responds to likely counter-arguments. For example, doesn’t the dialogue style Tim is teaching allow the pro-choice person to have too much of an advantage, or allow them to take too much control of the conversation?
Related Links:
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Don’t Dialogue Like Hamilton OR Aaron Burr
Skillet: “Awake and Alive”: Spotify
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October 03, 2015ERI Staff Discuss Their Most Common Dialogue Mistakes – Part 1
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Josh, Tim, Rachel, and Jacob discuss their most common dialogue mistakes in this two-part series.
Related Links:
Equipped for Life Podcast Episode 29: How Josh Should Have Dealt with a Hostile Audience in Canada
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Don’t Be Too Nice
Josh Brahm for the ERI Blog: When and How You Should End Unproductive Conversations
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October 02, 2015Overpopulation, Reincarnation, Sarcasm, and More
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Rachel shares what happened on her recent speaking and outreach tour in Oregon and Pennsylvania, which leads into a quick impromptu discussion on which people are best to invest the most energy into talking to during outreach, the hardcore pro-choice people or people in the middle.
Then the team responds to listener mail:
22:14: “Why do you sometimes describe your view that embryos are persons as a ‘really weird view’? Is this disingenuous?”
27:41: “How do you respond to overpopulation?”
35:25: “How do you respond to people who are pro-choice because they believe in reincarnation, therefore abortion is no big deal because the babies are just reincarnated somewhere else?”
45:12: “I have a problem with sarcasm. Do you have any tips for me?”
Email us at [email protected] to share your weirdest pro-choice arguments you’ve heard! We’d love to cover them in a future episode.
The audio is a little wonky in this episode. We got some new microphone processors that should improve the audio quality, but when we went to edit we realized that we didn’t have all the settings dialed in quite right, so there was a lot of us bleeding into each other’s mics. We made it a lot better through mixing, but it’s still not great. We should have this working better next episode.
Related Links:
Reddit: Reddit.com/UnexpectedMulaney
Equipped for Life Podcast Episode 29: How Josh Should Have Dealt with a Hostile Audience in Canada
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Bodily Rights Arguments Necessitate Extremism
Equipped for Life Podcast Episode 11: Humor in Dialogue
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Ben Shapiro’s Response to Abortion in the Case of Rape
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October 01, 2015Practical Tips for Talking with Post-Abortive Women
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Rachel interviews Lori Navrodtzke, a PRC counselor and Justice For All volunteer, about how to dialogue with people about abortion if they’ve already had one.
Topics Covered:
What is in a post-abortive woman’s mind when she approaches a pro-life outreach table on campus?
What are some signals that pro-life advocates should keep an eye out for, that might be a clue that they’re talking to a post-abortive woman?
Are there things we should not say or directly ask?
How should you proceed if you ask someone if they’ve had an abortion and they say no, but you think that they’re not being honest about that?
A reminder that some post-abortive women don’t regret abortion, at least not yet.
If they do disclose their abortion history, what sorts of things should we be doing, especially for those of us who aren’t trained counselors?
Related Resources:
Equipped for Life Course – Module 9: Talking to Abortion-Minded and Post-Abortive People – Showing Compassion When the Rubber Meets the Road. Visit equippedcourse.com to learn more.
Photo Credit: Lori Navrodtzke talking to a pro-choice student at a Justice For All outreach at the University of North Texas in 2011. Photo owned by JFA and used with permission.
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September 30, 2015How Josh Should Have Dealt with a Hostile Audience in Canada
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Josh shares what happened when he gave a pro-life speech at a high school in Canada last month where three angry pro-choice girls sat in the front row and dominated the Q&A session. You’ll hear how Josh actually handled it, as well as a discussion with Tim and Rachel about what Josh could have done better.
If you ever plan on giving pro-life speeches, this episode will be very practically helpful to you!
Related Links:
Channel 4 News YouTube Channel: Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Don’t Be Too Nice
Josh Brahm for the ERI Blog: When and How You Should End Unproductive Conversations
PhilosophyInsights YouTube Channel: Jordan Peterson Calls Out Disruptive Protesters at Queen´s University
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Six Ways I’ve Seen Pro-Choice People Try to Censor Pro-Lifers
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: How Should Conservatives Respond to the Disturbing Trend of Campus Censorship?
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September 29, 2015Social Media Dialogue Part 6: 7 Final Practical Tips
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Josh, Tim, and Rachel finish their multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media.
Here are the tips covered in this episode:
Practical Argumentation
Use links sparingly. If your argument only works if they read a long article you link to, you’re doing it wrong. Summarize the thesis of what you’re linking to, and the link is to back you up or give them more info if they want it.
Always cite neutral websites for sources.
Know logical fallacies and cognitive biases so that you can recognize and respond to a logical fallacy (and not commit one yourself!).
Stay factual. If you’re not sure, admit it. Use disclaimers like “It’s my understanding that…” instead of asserting ideas or facts you’re not sure about.
Never claim research or studies have shown anything unless you are prepared to cite those sources.
Not drowning them in text is a good goal to strive for unless you are telling a story for something like a thought experiment. They are more likely to actually read everything you are saying this way. If they are drowning you in text with many trains of thought running everywhere, perhaps remark that they are saying a lot at once and ask them which they would like a response to first.
If someone crushes you under a wall of ranty text and you want to engage, feel free to pick one singular point and respond with only a line or two asking about it. There’s no rule saying you have to reply to every single point they make all at once.
Related Links:
ERI Brochure Sources
Josh Brahm for the ERI Blog: The Best Way to Expose Logical Fallacies: Don’t Call Them by Name
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: How Your Brain Tricks You into Thinking the Other Side Is Stupid
YouTube/ABC News: Rick Perry’s ‘Oops’ Moment at 2011 Presidential Debate
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Don’t Be Too Nice
Amazon: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. (Affiliate link. ERI will get a small cut from Amazon if you purchase the book.)
TED Talks: Daniel H. Cohen: For Argument’s Sake
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September 27, 2015Social Media Dialogue Part 4: 12 More Practical Tips
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Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. In this episode they continue a series of 35 practical tips in five categories.
The episode begins with a brief discussion of Josh and Tim’s new kittens. If you want to skip this, the substantive content begins at 09:40.
Here are the tips covered in this episode:
Practical Lowering Defenses Moves
Point out virtually every case of common ground.
Do the “tell them what you don’t mean” thing more often on social media than in person due to it being easier for them to misunderstand, stew a bit, and then yell back an angry response or just leave, not giving you a chance to clarify.
Consistently summarize the other person’s view or argument to them throughout the conversation. This assures the other person you’re taking them seriously as a human being and not some random name with a picture.
Don’t forget to be relational when you talk about rape and other hard topics.
Never (or rarely) use any language even bordering on profanity, caps, or anything remotely disrespectful like “baby killer”, “murderer”, etc.
Use neutral terminology that the other side is comfortable with.
Never compare to Adolf Hitler, Dr. Mengele, Stalin, Pol Pot, the Holocaust, etc. That immediately ticks people off.
Ask clarifying questions if you don’t understand; don’t assume.
Point out when they teach you something.
Like the other person’s comments when they’re being clear and charitable, not just when you agree with them.
Don’t like or share inflammatory things.
Sow intentional positive seeds with people you would hope to dialogue with one day.
Related Links:
Learn more at equippedcourse.com to watch Equipped for Life Module Two, Lesson Six: Find Genuine Common Ground and Module Two, Lesson Eight: Say What You Don’t Mean.
ERI Podcast: Stories from the Students for Life Conference
Tom Segura: Seagal (Language warning)
Brain Pickings: How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently (Rapoport’s Rules are listed in this article)
Channel 4 News YouTube Channel: Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism
Josh Brahm for the ERI Blog: Fetus Tunnel Vision: 4 Reasons Pro-Lifers Need to Stop Doing This
Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: On Virtue-Signaling
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