(October 11, 2014 at 10:48 am)C4RM5 Wrote: What defines a human to you?
At this point, I think it's safe to say that the reason you don't want to simply repeat, or point to, your definition of a human is because it really is as anemic as what you said back a page, that you believe it's human from conception.
What you fail to realize is that what you believe is not a relief map of why that is; a definition necessarily comprises more than just the noun it refers to. You need to go into more detail, which you won't because you haven't actually thought this through, and we'll be able to find obvious flaws in whatever exposition you try to give us.
Your position isn't tenable because it's not rational, and not justified. It's a gut feeling you have, an intuitive leap you made because you find some idea or another icky, and for some reason you decided that your likes and dislikes are so much more important than the needs and lives of everyone else on the planet. Have I just about got it?
You could prove me wrong by simply expounding on your position and providing a rationally justified, non-contradictory, specific reason why it's murder to terminate a pregnancy. But we're fifty six pages in, and I don't think you have the intellectual content on hand to do so, because I seriously do not think you've considered your position at all beyond the simple assertion, "it's murder!"
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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