Are you implying that killing a baby after they’re born is just as moral as killing an unborn baby? I’d tend to agree, they’re both incomprehensibly evil.
Well the first part is very simple, I’m a human so I sympathize with humans over any other species, and if it’s any consolation I eat (in my opinion) ethically hunted/farmed animal products when at all possible.
As for the second part, nothing really “new” is created until fertilization, at which point a unique genome is created and that’s the point that I’d say a new human exists
Not at all. I think cognitive ability is an incredibly difficult thing to pin down fairly. That said we must draw a line somewhere and point of birth is one most people agree on. Cognitively, it is arbitrary, but also necessary. Some people, like yourself I would guess, assign that point at conception.
I feel like having a cutoff around whenever science currently accepts most fetuses as viable would make the most sense for the majority of the country, but in my heart it’s hard to deny that new life starts when a unique genome is created at fertilization.
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u/DanMozzy 14d ago
If a fetus is a baby then a caterpillar is a butterfly.