This is very annoying without a reply feature...
@snailslime
freshly conceived fetuses are less alive than parasites.
lmao life isn't a spectrum, something either
is or
is not life. Holy shit I'm still replying to you, I am retarded.
you can't provide a source for your definition
I told you multiple times what the source was. Remember, it rhymes with "Botanica"? And where's your source for some life being "less alive" than other life, especially pertaining to human development?
what's wrong with what i said?
You said they only gain sentience at around 22 weeks. I proved that to be false, and so you moved the goal since responding to sound proves you're wrong.
i think biologists know way more about biology than your average joe, yes.
Yes?! So as Ketanji said, only biologists can define "woman"; not Ketanji, and neither you nor I, JUST biologists? But you defined a woman earlier. Are you a biologist or not?
why does it matter? and how do you know that for a fact?
Because we're talking about ending human life, details matter. And humans develop sentience, we're not plants lol how do you not know that fact?
Unless you're suggesting it won't become sentient because it'll be retarded or something, but I don't think killing retards is right either anyway, do you?
he was sentient before he became comatose
Wait, wait. You said it doesn't matter that the fetus will gain sentience since it currently is not sentient, implying only the current moment matters. If the future doesn't matter, why does the past? The comatose dude IS, just like the young fetus, not sentient NOW.
Does only now matter? If not, then why does the past but not the future matter? In fact, just tell me exactly what tangible difference it makes anyway, why should anybody cares if he WAS sentient since you don't care that the fetus WILL be?
and [he] probably consented to whatever will be done to him while he's in the coma.
What if he was born comatose?
What's scientific about killing your offspring at their most vulnerable? I don't get your point.
a lot of pro-lifers don't give a damn about babies after they're born
Can't care about babies that are killed, so maybe focus on that first.
Being small doesn't mean it doesn't count as being killed.
Explain.
I'm pretty sure that's not true but regardless, then I apologize.
yeah, it's called brain development and neural connections. pretty reasonable way to define sentient life
Hold up. You were saying it's "not life" and "not alive", not that it wasn't "sentient life". You need to be more consistent, you can't flop around like a fish out of water.
I'm not here to debate whether it should or not, but it DOES. That is what matters.
your steak isn't sentient because it's dead. the cow it came from was once sentient though.
But it's not a question of if it was or not, it is currently dead and can never not be dead, so it is--being dead and all--not sentient, so you don't need to say "this steak is not sentient". That is redundant as steak is inherently not sentient.
your friend gang weeder is the only one running in circles here.
He's doing donuts in celebration of his victory. Nobody can best his arguments, it seems.