Again I'm not conflating anything. I'm not talking either about life in general terms or the notion of a separate human entity, let along conflating the two. I was talking about the idea of a separate life form.
Now in this case the life form IS a separate human entity, but I didn't say so in the post you replied to.
Okay, if you want to talk about biology, then life does not begin at conception
If you want to talk about biology you have a new life form, and more specifically a new member of the species homo sapiens, at conception.
This is using the definition of life means "not dead".
Which isn't a definition I have been using in this whole conversation, esp. since I haven't been talking about life, but rather a life form, or now an example of homo sapiens.
but then we aren't just discussing not-dead,
You are the only one who has been discussing "not-dead", and the whole time it has been pretty much irrelevant to what I have been saying. |
