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RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
March 14, 2013 at 5:32 am
(March 14, 2013 at 4:55 am)catfish Wrote:
(March 14, 2013 at 4:39 am)Esquilax Wrote: I think the key lies in that word "individual" there: how can we say that a fetus, not possessed of any of the experiences that make a person, is an individual?

So, do you claim that you never existed as a fetus?
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The physical matter that composed my fetus existed, sure. But "me" as a person didn't. Because me as a person is built up of my memories and experience of the world, nothing more. Hence my distinction between the physical matter of the body and the person as an individual. A fetus, having had no memories or the apparatus to experience the world and exercise its conscious mind, is not a person.
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Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by Tiberius - March 10, 2013 at 10:36 am
RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by Esquilax - March 14, 2013 at 5:32 am
RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by Joel - March 15, 2013 at 9:25 am
RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by Joel - March 16, 2013 at 11:47 am
RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by smax - March 18, 2013 at 4:29 am
RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion... - by Joel - March 18, 2013 at 10:51 am

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