(June 21, 2014 at 4:43 pm)Arthur123 Wrote: No, I believe being genetically human is all that matters. When you say kill inherent in that sentence is that something is already alive because it is philosophically unintelligible to kill something that is already dead.
Yes, but "alive" is a separate characteristic that's now present within your definition. Of course you can't kill things that aren't alive, that's the point I'm making: you're appealing to additional characteristics beyond "genetically human" when you say that a fetus can be killed.
You're right, it's not possible to kill non-living things. Doesn't that entail the assumption that a fetus is alive when you're saying abortion is killing it? And doesn't that mean that this question of human genetics is irrelevant to the discussion you're actually trying to have?
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