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Originally Posted by tore
Less than human? Those are your words.
According to your moral logic, I assume killing a two weeks old fetus is as bad as killing a healthy thirty five year old who is a husband, friend, father, brother, coworker and more?
After all, both are human and so the difference in consequences is not really important?
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I'm **** at this kind of thing, but I think that an important distinction needs to be made between being a human being, and being a person. One involves DNA, and the other involves a set of sometimes nebulous criteria that include but are not limited to: consciousness, ability to suffer...I'm sure I could think of more if I weren't so lazy. Basically I'm just interested to see if Tore might want to expand on that, since I've seen him touch on that, but he hasn't really outright mentioned it. Sorry for asking you to do work, Tore, but you're smart and I'm not.
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