(July 30, 2013 at 4:54 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: As I said, it's open to discussion. If I was charging into a burning building to save the life of a child or a cat, I would save the life of the child. Sometimes these rules have some grey area.Wouldn't a rational justification for this (superficially seen speciest) behaviour be the difference in potential for a more developed consciousness which the child has but the cat less so? And doesn't the unborn fetus have that same potential?
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
