RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
March 16, 2013 at 8:59 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2013 at 9:02 am by Esquilax.)
(March 16, 2013 at 8:54 am)catfish Wrote: I'm not arguing your definition of a person, now am I?
I'm relaying the scientific fact tha a human zygote/fetus in an individual lifeform and you guys are denying that it's true. < This is what I find humorous...
Once you admit what it is, we can talk about the morality of killing it. (that's what this is about, btw)
Well, when you're arguing that what makes it human is its distinct DNA, then you'll need to provide for these additional problems in your definition when they come up. But if you can't, well, then you're just plain wrong.
But you're also bouncing about a lot, too: a moment ago you were talking about what makes a fetus human, but now that you've encountered a question you can't answer about that, you've switched to talking about what makes it alive despite the fact that even a cursory glance at previous pages would tell you that most of us have been likening the little mite to a parasite for the entire thread. Parasites are very definitely alive, but in this sense the fetus is alive in the way that most cells are alive.
Alive, but not conscious.
Now, would you like to leap to some other topic without acknowledging that you're wrong on this one? That's been your habit thus far.
(March 16, 2013 at 8:54 am)catfish Wrote: I saw your post, you answered yourself with "single-bodied, single consciousness possessing", it's kinda silly to argue for multiple individuals after that statement...
Except that you yourself, mere posts ago, was arguing that what differentiates the fetus as its own distinct human being is its unique DNA.
Chimera have two sets of DNA. Your options are either to admit that you don't differentiate fetuses based on the uniqueness of their DNA, or admit that that definition is flawed.
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