RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
March 17, 2013 at 9:41 am
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2013 at 9:43 am by catfish.)
(March 17, 2013 at 9:20 am)Esquilax Wrote: Oh catfish, if only you would stop trying to cram additional emotional baggage into the term I'd have no trouble admitting it. In fact, I have done so numerous times, I've just been careful to qualify my thoughts on the matter because, unlike you who just seems to want to score points by getting people to agree with inaccurate definitions when you've already poisoned the well, I actually care that my arguments are cogent and lack the capacity for misrepresentation.
You, on the other hand, just want me to go "Yeah, a fetus is an individual human life" so you can point your finger and crow that I want to kill babies. I'd rather not be forced into that position by dishonest argumentation, so I thought I'd employ this rather ingenuous thing that intelligent people use called "clarity."
So then, do you agree that a zygot/embryo is an individual human lifeform that starts at conception? IOW, is conception the start of life or not? (you claimed "no" earlier)
(March 17, 2013 at 9:36 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Stem cells. Are they people?
It figures you would try assigning the legal definition of a person to "cells". Think deeper next time...
