(June 17, 2014 at 5:33 pm)Arthur123 Wrote: Thank you for the warm welcome, everyone! Unfortunately I can not eat cookies..I am allergic to gluten :/ I outlined my reasons for classifying fetus' as human beings in my first post and the following few posts. If and only if a fetus is a human being than abortion is murder. I am arguing that point. Beccs, the problem with your definition is it confuses human beings with their functionality instead of their ontology (what that thing actually is.) Not to mention the ethical issues that would result from such a view not even counting abortion.
Morality must in the end a functional artifice. Only through the obscuring veil of religion could it be made to seem to have, or deserve to have, any separate existence than what could be justified by its functionality in the context of human society.
So, why would a thing which is functional and only justifiable based on its functionality in human society ignore any definition which is also functional in context of human society, and resort instead to games of sementics?
