[extropy-chat] Famous author self destructs in public! Film at eleven.

[Dirk Bruere]

Samantha Atkins wrote:

> A fetus is not a child until it is granted that status by the woman  
> carrying it.  Otherwise women are subject to unbidden duties by any  
> failure in contraceptive viability (if available) or any lapse in  
> attentiveness to such protections.    Where do you get the jump that  
> it is a duty to have children?
>
> The entire notion of when a set of cells becomes a human child with  
> all the rights and duties attending thereto is hotly debated.  Is a  
> blastocyst a "child"?   Are the sperm and egg before union somehow a  
> "child"?  Does it take a sperm and an egg?  If we take an unfertilzed  
> egg and replace its nucleus with the nucleus from an adult cell from  
> say the adult's finger is the result also a "child"?
>
In the end it simply comes down to arbitrary definitions.
You choose your axioms and fight your fight.
It's not a question of 'reason' or 'science'.
Different people make different choices and there is no way of proving 
any kind of right or wrong.

-- 
Dirk

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