You don't have the right to harvest someone else to save your life because no one has the right to live at the expense of someone else. I've always thought personhood involved being conscious, fully self aware, intelligent, able to assess the world around them, able to plan for the future and able to look back on the past. That way, my definition excludes all animals but doesn't exclude intelligent aliens that we may one day find.
How is a person different from fertilised cells? Well firstly, the person has a nervous system, they can feel pain. They would be fully aware of what you are doing to them, causing terror and stress. Killing them would break all social and emotional bonds with that persons friends and family and would damage possibly hundreds of people in the process.
How is a person different from fertilised cells? Well firstly, the person has a nervous system, they can feel pain. They would be fully aware of what you are doing to them, causing terror and stress. Killing them would break all social and emotional bonds with that persons friends and family and would damage possibly hundreds of people in the process.
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
