RE: Abortion/Consciousness/Life
July 23, 2014 at 10:41 am
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2014 at 10:47 am by Heywood.)
(July 23, 2014 at 10:24 am)Baqal Wrote: @Heywood
-2. A sperm has no expectation of future person-hood unless it fuses with an ovum.
How exactly do these expectations suddenly pop in? Do you think a sperm is "motivated" to reach the ovum and become a complex organism?
I misspoke....I should have left out the "unless it fuses with an Ovum part. A sperm really has no future expectation of person-hood. A sperm is destroyed and ceases to exist in the conception process. If you see a future expectation of person-hood in sperm...well then maybe you should give it moral protection. I won't stop you.
If in your mind future expectation of person-hood doesn't grant a being moral protection....then you should be okay with killing a perfectly healthy human being under general anesthesia. The moment a human is under general anesthesia...they are simply a piece of meat.....there is no person there....so it should be "okay" to kill that being....right?
Now if you claim the human under general anesthesia past person-hood grants that human moral protection....then you should be opposed to pulling the plug and letting a brain dead human die. A brain dead human was a person in the past.
I choose as my moral code to simply to grant beings with future expectation of person-hood moral protection. Its short, its sweet, and it makes sense.....however a consequence of that moral code is a pro-life position.