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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (26047)9/17/2001 4:02:22 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I said: "If anyone truly believed that an egg was a person, then they would treat it as a person. Thus, if the in vitro egg was closer to the escape route of the burning building than the child (all things being equal)--then such a person would personally attempt to save, or to support the attempt by those whose duty it is to protect and preserve human rights (firemen, etc.) to save--the egg--EVERY SINGLE TIME. Because, if the egg is a person, then it DOES HAVE the same basic human rights to protection, etc. as does the child in this analogy.

You said: "People make distinctions and have prejudices for or against other humans all of the time. They would normally rescue the child before they rescued an adult. They would probably rescue someone they cared for before rescuing a stranger. Many people would put less effort in to rescuing someone they hate or who is a member of some hated group. All of this deals with people's emotions and priorities not with the nature of what is being rescued.

As YOU are the person arguing for the basic human rights of ALL people (by which YOU include fertilized human eggs), I am interested in who YOU would save--not others. IT is YOUR value system that I am questioning--not others.

Leaving aside the subjective errors bemoaned by your quote (above referenced)--who would YOU rescue in the circumstance that YOU were a fireman and YOU could EITHER save two "people" at the egg stage of development, OR ONE person at six years of age--the choices being mutually exclusive due to the circumstances?
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