Frigidus wrote:Napoleon Ier wrote:What is it you consider to be alive? Is a person unable to conceptualize because they suffer brain-damage not human?
Yes. If it can't think or feel pain it isn't alive. Animals have more of a right to life than a fetus considering that they can survive on their own, feel pain, recognize objects, and generally don't ruin people's lives.
Ha, on this same topic I might throw in something that you'll really hate
Ever heard of Peter Singer? (animal rights activist amoungst other things)
Well he's come out and said that a cow, pig, chicken, any non-human animal that is alive, healthy and a sentient being has more right to life than a human who is so severly disabled that they no longer have their own free will to survive (or who never had)
Now, (and this is where he gets taken out of context) he isn't saying that ALL disabled people are in this category, just merely people who are either vegetables or who will forever need 24 hour constant care. The ones who don't actually know they are alive, as such. It's a good point, I think. Why should these people be granted the 'right of life' when they can't even do anything about it, yet non-human animals are systematically killed for our convenience.
Aborted fetuses are exactly that. Fetuses. Not babies, not children, not people.
Do you eat veal, napoleon? You like the little baby calf taken away from it's mother to be carved up for us all, and then the Cow is left with an udder full of milk which is then farmed again, for our convenience.