(October 10, 2014 at 2:35 pm)C4RM5 Wrote:(October 9, 2014 at 4:47 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Lets try it this way. What makes a human a human?Let me put it this way will a brain dead human sunddenly become mentally active, No but a foetus will turn into a funtional human being.
Or try this one, when a person is brain dead, is it okay to turn off life support?
You left out the central question. What makes a human a human? An embryo has the potential to become a human, but it isn't yet. Nuts have the potential to become trees, but they aren't trees yet. Fertilized bird eggs have the potential to become birds, but they aren't birds yet.
If you want to set a moral line, you need to know when that embryo becomes human. To do that you'd better have a good definition of human.
Don't say merely having the genetics, because the brain dead body and the corpse have those and so does my dandruff.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.