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Quote by: Starboy That is all very interesting but it would all depend on whether you thought that a single cell is a human being. At some point in the development of human life what is present is declared a human being. Exactly where the demarcation line is will be up to society. If society wants to claim that a human egg and a human sperm separately is a human being since they are human life and can be easily combined to make a conceptus then it could declare that masturbating and unfertilized ovulation is a crime. After all everything involved is human life. But you have to draw the line somewhere. I think that in the future for most people there will be a distinction between human life and a human being. There has to be. Science is getting far too good at manipulating life in general and it would make no sense to issue a death certificate every time you had a wart removed. After all a wart is human life but no one would mistake it for a human being. However there will come a time where it could be easily turned into a human being. I was just reading a report of Japanese researchers that have developed a technique to use human skin cells to reliably create a conceptus that develops into the early stages where stem cells are present. In America today such research will not happen because of all the magical thinkers. And it has already moved off shore to places like England, China, Japan and South Korea. It will move to places where people know the difference between human life and a human being.
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Your argument is completely without merit. Overt condesention only works if you are knocking down your oponent's arguments as if they weren't there. It just doesn't have the same effect when you are flat on your back with a bloody nose. From you, it just sounds like whining.
You keep up with that rediculous single cell argument. That stage of a human being's life lasts for a couple of hours. How bright is it to base a whole block of your argument on a span of about two hours in a human being's life?
And science already knows the difference between human life and a human being. You can find it in any textbook dealing with human development. Still waiting for you to produce something that looks like evidence to support your
"opinion". It doesn't seem to be forthcoming.