11-10-2012, 12:57 PM
(11-10-2012, 12:46 PM)Jester Wrote: What understanding is this? Is there some piece of developmental biology that has legal consequences? There is no objective "scientific definition" of when "life" begins, let alone when "human" life begins, let alone when "rights" begin. We assign these things according to our values. They have no objective scientific merit.By the same logic; there is no reason to prosecute any crime against a mass of chemicals we call human that may or may not be living.
We either have a way of defining harm against animals, or against people, or we do not? Which is it?
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