(July 21, 2014 at 10:51 am)Heywood Wrote:You do see how silly it is to talk of any single cell (fertilized or not) having an expectation of anything. Sure it might become a person, but it's really not ready to anticipate anything at all.(July 21, 2014 at 10:33 am)Esquilax Wrote: A sperm isn't by itself unless it is wasted so it is silly to make such an argument. A living sperm in its father's testicles has a future expectation of personhood.
See where this is going? You aren't making any arguments that aren't equally applicable to other things you draw the line at, for some reason.
A sperm never has an expectation of person-hood. A sperm ceases to exist at conception. A sperm is something that is consumed in the process of creating an organism which does have a future expectation of person-hood.
Your comparison of a sperm to a fetus is silly because they are quite different things. One is complete organism...the other is gamete. This is high school biology....you should know this.
Is your argument that once the genetic deck has been shuffled suddenly it's a person? It isn't. It has no brain or sense of self. It's just a little sack of DNA. It's really no more a person than the egg and sperm were before they united. Eggs are not chickens.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
