I'd have to give thought to it and this would require thinking around the problem which would include the ethics of letting eggs and sperm die. I have not yet given thought to it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Please do, but I'd say the ethics of leaving sperm or eggs around to die is immaterial. As are questions on contraception, abstinence and the like. It's better to narrow it down to conception. Two things coming together to make something new and unique is the proper dividing spot
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Replying to @PaulBates7
That's what needs proving with rational argument first. Why? Is it just the cognitive bias that tells us that failing to make something is better than stopping something that has started even tho the consequences are the same for the potential person? Not sure that's good enough
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Here's my problem with you saying pro-life people are irrational. Does human life begin at conception? It's certainly a rational, logical, philosophically, and altogether scientifically sound concept. For sake of argument: Human life begins at conception. Now what?
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Replying to @PaulBates7
But I don't say that pro-life people are irrational. I say that that position is often based on an intuitive, rather than rational sense of an embryo as a baby.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I responded bc you called them irrational. Sometimes, yes they are. But not on that intuitive care/harm level. That's completely rational. From pro-choice, I see as much irrationality. Maybe my own sense of it is the same.
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Replying to @PaulBates7 @HPluckrose
Whether an embryo is a clump of cells or a baby is a not a matter of scientific determinability. It is an arbitrary one.
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Replying to @PaulBates7
Precisely. Not rational. Rational needs info on brain development etc
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Replying to @HPluckrose
No it doesn't. Now that's cognitive bias. Why does rational need brain development or other metrics? Only to fit your arbitrary definition. It's life. It's a human life. Whether it can think or feel pain does not change that.
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Replying to @PaulBates7 @HPluckrose
I often hear pro-choice people tell me that it's human when it can survive out of the womb - but that would mean that being human is changing along with technology.
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I haven't. That is a terrible argument. Human eggs and sperm are human.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I'm not going to call it terrible. But only because it was my wife's.
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