@dezrtfish:
Smack - No dodge, hypothetical questions are for lack of a beter word smacktarded. What if my granny’s house and Barack Obama’s house were on fire? If I send the truck to Grannies house am I a biggot? what if it was Obama and McCain?
anything besides a toss of a coin demands a reason. If you send it to grandmas house, then your reason might be one of family loyalty.
What would be the reason for sending it to the orphanage instead of the fertility clinic? That we value children more than fertlized eggs? Of course we do. What you have to argue (and I think its impossible to do without religion) is that we have no reason to prefer saving the lives of children over fertlized eggs. That our intution that its worse to let children die is somehow wrong.
Well a zygote will have money at some point unless some dumbass kills it. smiley
Not necessarily. Mother nature’s done away with more zygotes than humans ever will. But the key phrase is “will have”. You would argue that a zygote is a potential person. Well, so it is. Go buy a lottery ticket. Now you’re a potential millionaire! I’m sure youll have no trouble convincing a bank to give you a $500,000 loan. After all, you’re a potential millionaire, and in the end is that any different than being an actual millionaire? :wink: