RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
March 9, 2013 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2013 at 1:19 pm by genkaus.)
(March 9, 2013 at 12:32 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I think we are talking about awareness in a different sense. I mean if the baby can experience things, it's aware of that thing. I don't mean sophisticated awareness.
And that view would be wrong. Capacity to experience something is not the same as being aware of it. Plants can experience things - as evidenced by their response to external stimuli - but we do not credit them with any sort of awareness.
(March 9, 2013 at 1:08 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I don't know how to define it. Seems like we are playing semantics to justify killing babies.
If you don't know how to define it, then you are in no position to base your arguments on it. What is being justified here is that what we are killing are not in fact babies.
