(June 21, 2014 at 2:42 am)Heywood Wrote:(June 21, 2014 at 2:28 am)Rhythm Wrote: ...We don't prosecute for murder based on somethings "expectation of life", but rather, the actuality of that life. You can;t "murder" something that might one day bre alive. For it to be murder..that thing has to have been alive right up to the point where you snuffed it (or set events in such a manner as to lead to the same inevitably).....
If living is the only requirement to be able to be murdered then a fetus can be murdered.
Why stop at a fetus? If you jack off that's also murder, or a woman who doesn't fertilize an egg, also MURDER!!
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.
