(July 22, 2013 at 8:40 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(July 22, 2013 at 8:12 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: fr0d0, i asked you what value do you assign to an embryo? because you seem rather liquid with this thing. one moment it's a human life so it deserves special consideration (if this isn't what you said, sorry i misunderstood, and please rephrase your position), another moment you condone its sacrifice if it could reduce suffering, so what is it? what value do you assign an embryo?
eggs are tasty :p
Everything from conception onwards is human life.
Repeatedly quoting a wrong thing does not make it right, and never will. But I suspect that you knew this already.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero