trying to understand when a human person can be said to be a fully formed human. — Gregory
But if one buys into the idea that it is always wrong to deprive potential beings of potential good lives, one is obligated to populate the earth with happy cows or some such easily pleased creature — Aleph Numbers
Read again with a bit more care - care to re-express the thought? If it starts at conception, what is it before conception?Unless I'm mistaken human life begins at the moment of conception. — Aleph Numbers
What does reason have to do with it? Reason can hope to mediate, but that is against how almost all of us are made - the appeal to reason being, then, not very reasonable.If putting out a fire is going to be a problem, the easiest, most reasonable, thing to do is not start one. Right!? — TheMadFool
What does reason have to do with it? Reason can hope to mediate, but that is against how almost all of us are made - the appeal to reason being, then, not very reasonable. — tim wood
Do you think it's right to kill deer? Neanderthals? Silver-back gorillas? Aliens? Looking forward to your feedback — Gregory
Think that through a bit. Either we're reasonable or we're not. If reasonable, it hasn't been doing much of a job. If not reasonable, then reason hasn't been doing much of a job. Back to square one on the argument. There seems to have some good effect on newer generations from sex ed. in schools, and heightened awareness of health, well-being, and risk, which is to way education and fear - but these not quite the same things as reason. Education standing in for reason, fear against passion.chaperone..., reason, allegedly, is... right... for the job. — TheMadFool
Think that through a bit. Either we're reasonable or we're not. If reasonable, it hasn't been doing much of a job. If not reasonable, then reason hasn't been doing much of a job. Back to square one on the argument. There seems to have some good effect on newer generations from sex ed. in schools, and heightened awareness of health, well-being, and risk, which is to way education and fear - but these not quite the same things as reason. Education standing in for reason, fear against passion.
Sex can be neither banished nor controlled, which suggests to my mind that what people of every age need is excellent age-appropriate advice. Some young get a measure of that in school - but when ever did the rest of us? — tim wood
I think it's more likely a zygote is a person than a cyst. — Gregory
When does a person become a person? — Gregory
You don't bury someone who might be alive — Gregory
Indeed, and sometimes this will involve deciding to have the cyst removed. (There's something misogynistic in and ...) What would be immoral would be to enforce carrying to term, to the detriment of mother and eventual child....women should take responsibility for their acts — Gregory
But women should take responsibility for their acts. — Gregory
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