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Building Rapport with a Benevolent Dictator Apr 16, 2018

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Many conversations about abortion succeed or fail because of your rapport, or lack thereof, with the pro-choice person. Even a perfectly articulated pro-life argument will just glance off of a combative pro-choice mind, so people who are skilled at dialogue use wisdom to build rapport and make the tone of the conversation friendly.

This piece gives a kind of interesting dialogue tip that has made a huge difference in building rapport in Tim's conversations. He didn't even notice it was significant until Rachel pointed it out.

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COURSE PODCAST CLIP: Social Media Dialogue Part 2: How to Think About Virtue-Signaling Apr 12, 2018

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Every other Wednesday we publish a new episode of the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases our course, "Equipped for Life: A Fresh Approach to Conversations about Abortion." Generally, these podcast episodes won't be available to the general public, but we plan on releasing short clips from the episodes every Thursday, to give you a sense of what these podcasts are like.

In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course, Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. Tim discusses virtue-signaling. What is it? Are there different types? Are some of them actually okay? And when is it a valid or helpful accusation?

In this clip, Tim explains how the philosophy team has organized the way that we think about different kinds of virtue-signaling.

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Fellow Pro-Lifers: Please Stop Sharing This Straw Man Meme Apr 09, 2018

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"My body, my choice" is possibly the most common slogan in defense of abortion right now, and an embarrassing number of pro-life people completely misunderstand it. This misunderstanding is so common, and it is so destructive. For Tim, and the rest of the team at ERI, it is a point of particular frustration. This piece is a response to a particular meme that completely misunderstands bodily rights arguments, and is therefore really harmful to the pro-life cause. Please stop sharing it.

Related Links:

Timothy Brahm: Autumn in the Sovereign Zone: Why "It's My Body, I Can Do What I Want" Won't Do: http://bit.ly/2x3TugP

Timothy Brahm: Bodily Rights Arguments Necessitate Extremism: http://bit.ly/2rv5ju8

Josh Brahm: Understanding and Responding to Bodily Rights Arguments: http://bit.ly/2mZugjg

Josh Brahm: Two Bad Pro-Life Responses to Bodily Rights Arguments: http://bit.ly/2gBTlv8

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COURSE PODCAST CLIP: Social Media Dialogue Part 1: The Obstacles Apr 05, 2018

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In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh, Tim, and Rachel begin a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. They begin the series by talking about some of the obstacles that often prevent good dialogue from happening on social media, like image management.

In this clip, Tim introduces the idea of image management in public conversation online.

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On Virtue-Signaling Apr 02, 2018

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Right before we released the Equipped for Life Course, we realized that one of the videos seemed to include Virtue-Signaling. Since Virtue-Signaling is a negative thing, it was rather confusing that this particular instance seemed okay. Finally, after about a year and a half, Tim gained some clarity and wrote this post.

In this piece, he offers some distinctions between types of Virtue-Signaling with the hope that people will be able to distinguish the objectionable types from the acceptable types. He closes with suggestions about how and when to accuse someone of Virtue-Signaling, all with the desired end of helping dialogue to be more productive between parties that disagree.

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Timothy Brahm: How to Turn the Tables on Four Pro-Choice Arguments: http://bit.ly/2xam2VC

Read an explanation of the term "woke": http://bit.ly/2uAk3xs

Timothy Brahm: How Your Brain Tricks You into Thinking the Other Side Is Stupid: http://bit.ly/2xCL0RK

Timothy Brahm: Snidely Whiplash Is Not on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2GoowsO

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COURSE PODCAST CLIP: Listener Mail: Freakonomics Mar 29, 2018

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In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh, Tim, and Rachel respond to questions on double-effect reasoning and how they would respond to someone who is pro-life for the wrong reasons. Afterwards, they talk about how to respond to the Freakonomics argument that abortion has resulted in a drop in crime rates, as well as a new technique Josh has been using when talking to utilitarians.

In this clip, Tim talks about how pro-life advocates should respond if someone brings up the abortion section from the popular book Freakonomics.

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Two Bad Pro-Life Responses to Bodily Rights Arguments Mar 26, 2018

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Even before ERI officially began, Josh and Tim cared a lot about helping pro-life people to think well and take pro-choice arguments seriously. They don't think every single pro-choice argument is a good argument (there are a lot of really bad arguments on both sides), but we won't be persuasive unless we can recognize and take the stronger pro-choice arguments seriously. In this piece, Josh addresses two bad pro-life responses to some of the stronger pro-choice arguments.

Related Links:

Josh Brahm: Understanding and Responding to Bodily Rights Arguments (includes Josh's speech): http://bit.ly/2mZugjg

The Alan Guttmacher Institute's 2005 survey of more than 1,200 abortion patients: http://bit.ly/2IQs9VO Timothy Brahm: Autumn in the Sovereign Zone: Why "It's My Body, I Can Do What I Want" Won't Do: http://bit.ly/2x3TugP

Judith Jarvis Thomson's violinist story or "people-seeds" analogy: http://bit.ly/2I0D4v0

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COURSE PODCAST CLIP: How Can the Pro-Life Movement Win Against Viral Pro-Choice Tweets? Mar 22, 2018

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In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh, Tim, and Rachel respond to a bunch of listener-mail questions related to the thought experiment about a burning in vitro fertilization lab—particularly the concern that it is too easy for pro-choice people to get traction with strawmen tweets when pro-life people have to answer with longer, more thoughtful responses that fewer people will read.

In this clip, the team begins to answer a question about how the pro-life movement is supposed to compete in the world of meme-driven, fast-paced internet culture.

ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Blog: https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

Abuse of Academic Authority Regularly Inhibits Pro-Life Speech Mar 19, 2018

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Sometimes it is tough to be a pro-life college student. Most challenges students face are found on campus during a tabling event or with the administration, but sometimes they are inside the classroom. Far too often when pro-life students dare to speak up in defense of the unborn, professors attempt to humiliate and silence them.

This piece is about two real stories. One of them happened to Rachel, and one of them happened to Ellen, a student we heard from firsthand on Twitter.

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ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

COURSE PODCAST CLIP: Dealing with Discouragement at Outreach Mar 15, 2018

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In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh, Tim, and Rachel talk about their recent outreach at Davidson College, which was a particularly difficult outreach for Tim and Rachel. They discuss what made it difficult as well as share some practical tips for handling discouragement at an outreach.

In these clips, Tim discusses why it is important for volunteers to take breaks at outreach.

ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Blog: https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com

ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

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