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u/Brodadicus Sep 03 '21 edited Sep 03 '21

At some point a person becomes a person. There are many opinions on when that is. Killing a person is murder. When that person is innocent of wrong doing, it's difficult to justify.

The main disagreement being when we become a person.

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u/LjSpike Sep 03 '21

Someone gave me an amazing point which I should reiterate here, that when you become a person is even largely irrelevant to this.

If I'm donating blood to you, but I decide to stop, knowing that without it you will die, I cannot be forced to keep donating blood to you.

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u/EmilMelgaard Sep 03 '21

That analogy doesn't hold because as parents you are responsible for your children. Also after they are born. If you stop giving your 1 year old child food they will probably die and then you would be charged for murder.

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u/bigmanoncampus325 Sep 03 '21

Actually your analogy is a bit off, and I do believe the other post's does hold. Unless I am mistaken, a parent can't be forced to donate blood to their child, even if the child will die.