Why I Am Pro-Life

[Rahul]

I also do not view this as a question of sentience. We still treat humans in a vegetative state with some measure of respect.

We should treat them with respect. After all it is the living remains of a person that used to exist, yet no longer exists. We should respectfully turn off the machines, and prepare their physical remains carefully in the manner we bury all of the dead.

It is NOT a human. That person is gone. When law enforcement finds a dead body they don't say they found the person. They say they found their "remains". For a reason.

Keeping their corpse artificially alive just for sentiment I find very insulting to their memory.

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You cannot liken a tumour, a tonsil, nor any other body part with that of a growing fetus. A human life.

A growing fetus is not a person. This is the heart of what we are talking about. Its brain hasn't developed far enough for anything to fire on to make it a person. No higher brain functions.

This seems beside the point to you. Because it is a "human life".

What exactly is a "human life"? Is a brain dead corpse on life support a "human life"?

I believe we have to define what you mean there before I can grasp what you are thinking.

Actually this made me think of "The Walking Dead". So let's think about that scenario with "Walkers". Now that person used to exist. But they are gone inside. The person that used to inhabit that body is gone. Their DNA says they are human. But are you saying that person still exists because DNA says it is that person? Are you like that old farmer guy saying, "No, I know this person. They're just sick." or do you act like most of the characters and say, "No. That person is gone. Kill it."?

It seems like you would say they are humans and we should respect the Walkers because that's human life. Where I would just blow its brain out saying, "That person is dead. It's just an animated corpse."