Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...

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Seriously? You're going to argue about the importance of bacteria? Do you realise that we're discussing a human lifeform here?

I guess what we're trying to do is get you to narrow your goddamn argument down and stop you from bouncing from point to point. So far all we've been able to get out of you is that a fetus is a human and therefore worth preserving, but you've been unable/unwilling to point out exactly what it is about being human that makes the life worthy of preserving.

You seem to place some inherent worth in the fetus despite the fact that it's non-viable outside the womb, it has no mental faculties that could remotely give it humanity, nor has it a human body. We are asking you why you believe this is so in the hopes that you'll examine your own position and perhaps go into greater detail.

It's clearly not a genetic argument because there's too many ways that could go wrong for you. It's clearly not an appeal to the specialness of life because you've got no issue destroying life so long as its not "human" even if it's more complex than the fetus would be. So why not just tell us what's so special about the life of a fetus, this humanity in potentia, that makes getting rid of it so much worse than getting rid of a sperm, or killing an animal for food?

And before you even think about talking about its potential as a human being, I'd remind you that argument works both ways, and also in many other ways besides: maybe that baby would go on to do something great, but it's equally likely the reverse is true. Fanciful non-argumentative appeals to emotion won't work here.