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Quote by: Anmon  No of course not, I don't know why you say this, I'm disagreeing with your assessment of eggs and sperm being worthless by themselves, |
Because by themselves, they are worthless. (unless you are in the stem cell business) If you have a handful of sperm what do you have? Add $4.50 to it (and wash your hand) and you can get a cup of coffee from starbucks.
[quote=Anmon;495193] If it is bled out or masturbated or absorbed, this still doesn't change what it could have been.{/quote]
Could have been is still squarely in the realm of nothing.
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Quote by: Anmon By themselves egg and sperm still have each half the necessary chromosomes to create a human being, I would hardly call that nothing, whether that potential to meet is met or not. |
If the potenital is not realized, then you have exactly nothing. If it is realized, then you have both sperm and egg and not one by itself. If you want to worship potential rather than actuality, far be it from me to stand in your way.
I will join you in saying that both sperm and eggs are unique in that they are the only cells in your body that have half of a set of chromosomes, but I won't join you in saying that ALONE, they have any more importance than my fingernail clippings. Both are cells from my body that are sluffed off.