the moral distinction I'm pointing to is that an embryo has no agency and thus cannot be considered a moral actor (and therefore not blamed or praised) whereas a born human does have agency and can be considered a moral actor.
we don't unanimously agree about this w.r.t unborn fetuses. this is why there's pushback against pre-natal gene therapies that would increase intelligence but there isn't controversy about post-natal school programs that (nominally) increase intelligence.
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this prejudice might not be a coherent position in our society and the irony of that is what I think bowser was pointing to with his original post. I kinda agree with that but was attempting to deconstruct an important cause of this prejudice.
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