(July 20, 2014 at 10:13 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(July 20, 2014 at 9:51 am)Heywood Wrote: A person under general anesthesia isn't conscious either. Would it be okay for a scorned woman to kill her cheating husband while he is under general anesthesia? Of course not. Given time that person under general anesthesia will become conscious and live a life. A person under general anesthesia has a future expectation of person-hood and that is what we give moral protection. A brain dead person has no future expectation of person-hood which is why many don't find it immoral to simply pull the plug. A fetus on the other hand does have a future expectation of person-hood which is why it is wrong to kill it.
A person under anesthesia has a history of being, ya know, a person... with a personality... emotions, thoughts, memories, etc. etc.
A fetus does not.
Seriously, Christians come up with the most asinine comparisons to make their points. One even told me this week that abortion is worse than slavery.
Smh.
You summed it up really good, I'm so tired of explaining this to Christians I didn't even bother doing it this time. Let's not got into the abortion discussion again
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
