RE: Why I Am Pro-Life
July 29, 2013 at 6:00 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2013 at 6:07 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(July 29, 2013 at 5:29 pm)Slave Wrote:Quote:All acts of murder are ones that involve a human killing another human "not out of self defense or not as a last resort"
Killing a kitten is not an act that involves a human killing another human "not out of self defense or not as a last resort".
Therefore, killing a kitten is not murder.
I agree.
This brings up two more questions. (1) Why is the species of the two parties in an act of murder important?, and (2) What is a human?
On the second question: What is a human?
Is a "human" synonymous with "the human body"? Say a human were in a completely vegetative state and we knew for sure that (1) there is absolutely no human consciousness at all inside of it nor (2) there is absolutely no possibility that person could reawaken from the vegetative state. This "person" is completely fried and is just a drooling set of organs. Would it still be murder to kill such a person?
Or say that the consciousness of a person who once inhabited a human body were somehow stored in a computer. Would it be wrong to take an ax to that computer effectively killing the person stored inside?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).