To: Greg or e who wrote (989 ) 12/6/2012 7:00:28 AM From: Solon Read Replies (1) | Respond to Nice to know you are so angry but you did not address any of my points. Nobody in the world would look after a fertilized egg if it were never to grow or change or develop attributes. Because the fertilized egg is not yet a human person. This shows that human DNA is irrelevant. What counts is human personhood. and their Right to their own autonomy of body, mind, and spirit. Message 28587335 <<"The human life aspect is hotly contested and studied in the Scientific community." "why do you keep adding egg and sperm to the argument when you already conceded that they are irrelevant" Because they are completely relevant . Because I am trying to teach you the concept of potentiality. We would not consider a sperm , an egg, or a fertilized egg as objects of care even though they are all potential humans--further or closer to the actualization. They all lack something (indeed--many, many things) on the road to personhood. The sperm lacks a complete complement of dna. The fertilized egg lacks a brain, a nervous system, a body, etc. If they were never to add to these missing pieces of personhood, we would see no value in them. Their actual value is nil. Their potential value is whatever value you would attach to a person. As I have said, nobody would care for a fertilized egg which was never to grow or change because even a dunce knows that the egg at that point is an egg and not a person--which only value is potential rather than actual.
