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Politics : Evolution
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (10418)12/2/2010 5:33:39 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
"Lives depend on us defining that right."
That has structural problems.
If the right remains undefined, it stands to reason that the dependent lives are also a matter of definition. You can't hold one indefinite and then glibly insinuate that the other, "lives", is definite. The emotional appeal of the appeal to saving lives is evident, but the logic doesn't stand much scrutiny imo.

If I ask the question "what lives?" I am willing to wager a pint o'draught that you'll invoke the lives of embryos. While I agree that they are alive, I have not had it compellingly demonstrated to me that these lives are immediately eligible for personhood. The only way I see out is to invoke a ruling on personhood handed down by fiat, invariably by consulting religious doctrine. I don't accept top-down religious premises, so as near as I can see we won't arrive at consensus. Thus my dodge ... it is the avoidance of otherwise inevitable, and inevitably tiresome, conflict.
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