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Of course I'm not forcing you to do anything if you don't want to, but seriously, what have you got to lose? Five seconds of your life?
Regardless of everything else, it's absurd to suggest that foetuses reproduce by cell division.
Read the rules, dammit.
Because one needs food to live? That's a justifyable means in my book.
Wherever did I suggest that the fetus itself reproduces? I clearly implied the cell growth.
I would if they were posted somewhere.
Later, I'm a little iffy. I can't help feeling people should ordinarily notice that they're pregnant before it starts showing on the outside, but there are women with really irregular periods and such for whom it would kind of suck. :/
Well, why not? If nobody wants to pay for eir life support and there isn't any sign that the person is likely to wake up, what's so bad about not keeping em alive?People on life support can't think or do anything useful. That doesn't make killing them right.
Being able to respond to monosyllabic commands heavily implies consciousness and thought.Dannichu said:My best friend's brother can't speak, act on more than monosylabic commands and will never do anything to contribute to society. However, he's got just as much right to live as I do.
Yes it is but so what?Mudkip said:a fetus is life
I am pretty sure, if someone invites you to go ahead and it is taken to PM, that nobody will care.Mudkip said:Read the rules, dammit.
Explain to me how cell duplication is not reproduction.
Wherever did I suggest that the fetus itself reproduces? I clearly implied the cell growth.
I never said I disagree with that. And I hardly call a barely-moving parasite alive, either. Hence why I don't see office workers as alive. :D
I would if they were posted somewhere.
IM? Email? :D I'm ready for it!
Why is it justifiable? Because without food we'd die? Well, okay, but I thought all life was equally important, so why is it okay for us to kill things for food?
@@ no, you didn't, you clearly said the foetus reproduced through cell duplication. sorry.
It is possible to create synthetic food. *nodnod*
I don't see anything wrong with abortion in reasonably early stages of pregnancy when the fetus doesn't feel pain. It's kind of like cutting down grass, really. Just because it has the potential to be something doesn't really have any bearing on it right now.
Later, I'm a little iffy. I can't help feeling people should ordinarily notice that they're pregnant before it starts showing on the outside, but there are women with really irregular periods and such for whom it would kind of suck. :/
Hunting for food is okay, for just sport, not okay.
Dude, I'm not going to do anything.
That's nice, I can't.
The grass will still grow, though.
You said cell duplication is reproduction, not anything else.
Like you're one to talk.Oh yeah thanks for saying we're all retarded btw *cheers*
Another baby will grow, if and when the mother is ready for it.
Not the same one, though. Your arguement is null.
Why do people care about the treatment of animals, but not of unborn babies?
If you don't want to, or are unable to support and raise the baby, then put it up for adoption! Why is that so hard for some people to get that?
And why kill the baby in the first place? It's a life, not just something to destroy. If you don't want to, or are unable to support and raise the baby, then put it up for adoption! Why is that so hard for some people to get that? There are plenty of couples who want to have babies, but can't for one reason or another, and they would love to raise someone's baby, especially if it would be killed otherwise.
At least it never got to experience the horrible things it would have to have endured whilst in the adoption home, and bullies and all that crap that happens in life.