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@Eris
Is a fetus a person? And at what stage of pregnancy does a fetus receive personhood status?
@Eris
Why is it a person? What makes someone a person?
@Eris
In that case we have a fundamental different understanding of what constitutes personhood. As such, this discussion cannot proceed any further. Also, you'll have some explaining to do when humanity discovers intelligent extraterrestrials, of our level or higher.
>In that case we have a fundamental different understanding of what constitutes personhood.
In that case you are insane and all your arguments are incoherent. Thank you for proving my point.
@Eris
I didn't even make an argument. I only asked some question to gauge your level of intelligence and open mindedness to see if it's even worth making an argument.
@Eris
I asked about personhood, not humanity.
@Eris
Nope. You can call a strand of hair human, but you can't call it a person.
@Eris
Congrats, you just agreed with me that "person" is not the same as "human". As you just discovered yourself, "human" is a subclass of "person".
@Eris
Saying "human object is part of person" excludes the other way around being possible. Which makes it impossible for person = human.
>Saying "human object is part of person" excludes the other way around being possible.
No it doesn't. My hair is a human. It is a person. That person is me.
@Eris
You literally started with "person is a DISCRETE human being" and ended up with "hair is person" JUST so you don't admit you could be wrong about something.
@Eris
You gaslight yourself in changing your own definition of "person".
You are pre-emptively saying "your argument is ridiculous" without saying how and assuming i will just agree. Very silly way to behave.
@Eris
You've started our discussion by stating that distinct human beings is what constitutes a person.
Now you're stating that body parts of a human (as opposed to a full distinct human being) is what constitutes a person.
You're contradicting yourself.
Not to mention that the first thing people will think about when hearing "person" is a distinct individual functioning mind. It's why we don't really call a skeleton or a putrefying body a person anymore. And last I checked, your foot doesn't have a mind of it's own.
@Eris
A slice of cake is a slice of cake. It is not a distinct individual cake. A slice of cake does not share all properties of the full cake. Yes, it does share some properties, but not all of them.
>A slice of cake is a slice of cake. It is not a distinct individual cake.
I didn't ask if it was a distinct individual cake. I asked if it is cake.
If it is cake (it is) then it is necessarily part of some distinct individual cake.
@NEETzsche @critical @Eris
Is fapping and cumming in a tissue the same as an abortion? Checking your definitions on everything now... who knows what the hell people will come up with next.
A sperm cell is human, but which human is it? If you kill the sperm cell, does that human die?
A fetus is human, but which human is it? If you kill the fetus, does that human die?
Life begins at conception (the Church's teaching) is the most logically coherent. You either believe that or you are basically ok with infanticide. No one can ever explain exactly when life begins, because any other answer like "At birth" or "when a heartbeat is detected" is so variable it becomes absurd.
@Samhydeigger @critical @NEETzsche @Eris
The only reason that works for Christians is because they add in the concept of the soul at the same time. It's not just the "life" part that is important for them, it's that the life has a soul that is critical. Of course this brings in a lot more theological problems that Christians are usually unaware of, like how do twins' souls work, or do the countless miscarried pregnancies also have souls?
And not to mention that this goes out the window when you're talking with either a non-believer, or someone who's religion is far too different than mainstream Christianity.
We've reached the stage where you just start typing paragraph arguments against arguments you wish you were being presented with instead of the ones you're actually encountering.
>And not to mention that this goes out the window when you're talking with either a non-believer, or someone who's religion is far too different than mainstream Christianity.
You're talking to Christians, and so far you have yet to come up with a coherent argument for why abortion is not murder.
Why shouldn't we consider abortion to be a form of murder? Nut up or shut up. Eris said there's no coherent argument in favor of this and you're proving him right.
@Samhydeigger @critical @Eris
@Samhydeigger @critical @NEETzsche @Eris
Life begins with each and every cell division.
@Eris @critical @NEETzsche @Samhydeigger
That's something I need to ask you. Or rather Samhydeigger I guess, but you can answer too.
@Eris @critical @NEETzsche @Samhydeigger
Depends on which life you're talking about. We might have a ground on which to discuss something, or we might not.
I asked a question, please answer it.
@Eris @critical @NEETzsche @Samhydeigger
>not asking Socratic questions
And that's why you're bad at this.
The socratic method is for teaching someone. It's not for arguing.
@Eris @critical @NEETzsche @Samhydeigger
It's for understanding things in general. In a honest discussion people seek to understand each other.
@Samhydeigger @critical @NEETzsche @Eris
What do you mean by "a human life"? Do you mean the life of something with human DNA? The life of a person that is human? Or something else.
@Eris @critical @NEETzsche @Samhydeigger
To establish that we have the same definition of words, so that we can proceed with a discussion while avoiding misunderstandings that can occur because of different definitions of words.
@Eris @critical @NEETzsche @Samhydeigger
You've already proved that we have very different understanding of some very basic words.
@Eris @critical @NEETzsche @Samhydeigger
Believe what you want.
Hint: If the start of your argument depends on a lie like pretending to not know what a human is, it's not very coherent.
@Eris @critical @NEETzsche @Samhydeigger
How is it a lie, when I don't understand your definitions of "human" and "person"? Again, I started this very discussion making sure we had the same definitions for these words, and it's been clear from the beginning that we don't.
I cbf going through this thread but I figured I'd driveby and drop something.
https://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/embryoquotes2.html
https://quillette.com/2019/10/16/i-asked-thousands-of-biologists-when-life-begins-the-answer-wasnt-popular/
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that life begins at fertilization.
Oh yeah. But I just don't want this be yet another discussion where both sides mistakenly assume the scientific consensus favours progressive poz. I had to drop this shit on Spinsters when I was a week one fediverse scrub and didn't know how to deal with Emma threads.
A human life is one that has genetic code working autonomously. Meaning that there is DNA, as imperfect as it may be, that is 100% home sapien, functioning on it's own. So this includes the moment an egg is fertilized, identical twins, people who are brain dead, really retarded and downy humanoid creatures, theoretical freezing, etc.
It wouldn't cover some forms of siamese twins as 2 separated humans, like the ones that completely share a system and contain identical DNA that work in tandem. Obviously it wouldn't cover a dead person, or a theoretical hybrid or human DNA inserted in like mice to make ears or whatever.
It's really a simple answer if you take away "human" and add another living thing like "cat" or "horse". Would you consider a retarded horse a horse? Would you consider a fetal horse a horse? Does it become a cat when it's a fetus? What if there's 2? Etc.
>Does it become a cat when it's a fetus?
Even this phrasing is so silly. If "it" becomes a cat, that means "it" exists before it is a cat. If the cat exists... it's a cat.
>so a fetus is a human being and a person, just like an adult. So aborting it would be murder.
Yes.
>If it wanted to be dead it would kill itself, just like an adult would, right?
Sure, if it could. It generally lacks the capacity to want that or carry that out, though.
What's your point here?
>then why are we keeping braindead people alive?
I don't know. Who's we? I don't keep any braindead people alive.
"We build roads" does not mean every human on earth builds roads.
Remember that you brought up the behavior of life support as though to argue a point of hypocrisy. You can't pin me with hypocrisy for a behavior I don't participate in.
>if it was a suicide attempt, why try and keep the person alive, if it's clearly against their will.
This is a very weird question. Did anyone say anything about anything being against anyone's will? What are you arguing against?
I don't blame them, I do too.
You are refusing to continue this conversation now.
All Corgis are dogs, but not all dogs are corgis, right?
Adult is a bit harder to define for me. Scientifically it would generally be safe sexual maturity but if I'm going to be honest that's like around 16 and I will sound like a pedo.
An aside, not all adults can kill themselves.
But I'm interested in where you were going with this. Even if it has holes as big as a cheap hooker.
> I think you put words in my mouth.
It's the only method of argument they know.
>Is fapping and cumming in a tissue the same as an abortion?
No, of course not.