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Quote by: Starboy Biologically until an animal can reproduce it is technically not part of any species. In order for a species to be a species it must be able to reproduce, until then it could just be a sterile hybrid. The biological classification of species requires that they can persist across generations of that species. So technically until I was able to reproduce I was not fully vested as a member of the human species. And even then my offspring must also be able to reproduce. I have children, are you human yet? We humans however make the rules so I guess we can conflict with our own classifications any way we want. However all that amounts to is a special pleading and is not a very honest thing to do.
At least thirty percent of all pregnancy ends in natural abortion. Nature already practices abortion in far greater numbers than mankind ever has.
I am surprised that a medical doctor knows so little about biology. (Not really, dentistry is basically a trade degree. Just as one should not expect an EE to know all that much about physics.)
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See the corner that you have painted yourself into?...now you are saying that you were not human until you reached puberty...and had you been born sterile, you never would be human...This is the problem with trying to manipulate known facts into an improbable fantasy...you end up standing in a corner that you have painted for yourself looking quite stupid...imagine...according to you, none of us are human until we are old enough to reproduce...and if we never reproduce, we are never human...we don't even belong to a species...
and you question my education...
speices is simply a fundamental category of taxonomic classification, ranking below a genus or subgenus...it in no way requires reproduction, or red hair, or green eyes...or a dimple in your chin...Even sterile members of a species are vested members of that species by virtue of their genetic makeup...sterile members simply have a defect, they are not excluded because of a defect...one is not required to reproduce in order to be human, or any other species...
And most of us die of natural causes...natural causes do not constitute murder...murder is when one human kills another human with intent...
Now I ask again...before you were born, you were a living, growing, developing member of what species?
by the way...I had seriously considered biochemistry as my career choice...I have taken various math and physics courses up to and including the 5000 level as well..