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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
I didn't say it is not, I didn't say stem cell research was unethical. I said human embryonic stem research was unethical, base on the fact that it is using human embryos and they gather those human embryo through unethical means. That human embryo is part of the developement of a human being, and the human embryo should not be destroyed nor collected and manipulated and experimented on, nor cloned etc. I guess you do not consider that a human embryo (even though it is simple in structure) is a human being and that it has no value of a human being. But just as it is unthinkable to use a person in an experiment that would destroy that person, it is equally so to use a human embryo.
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I see you making claims that this is unethical, but I've still yet to see you provide any reasoning or arguments as to
why. I mean, an early embryo doesn't look like a human, can't experience it's surroundings like a human, isn't smart like the average human - why does it deserve the kind of moral consideration we typically have for people? On top of that, does it deserve that moral consideration if it's already dead?
I provided a utilitarian argument as to why it is not unethical in
this post. I'd like you to provide some more tangible whys as well .. not because I think your opinion is wrong, but right now it looks like you're basing your arguments on a simple "because I say so"
To confront you with another question, you think it's unethical to experiment on the fetus because it is a dead human. Why does that make it unethical?