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If you’re attached by an umbilical cord and that dependent on the womb’s environment, you are in no way individual. If I hadn’t made it out alive, I wouldn’t c
by quantified 5y ago
If you’re attached by an umbilical cord and that dependent on the womb’s environment, you are in no way individual.
If I hadn’t made it out alive, I wouldn’t care about a thing, same as I won’t care 70 years or so from now. Would have been fine with not experiencing the life I’ve had.
- rayiner 5y ago> If you’re attached by an umbilical cord and that dependent on the womb’s environment, you are in no way individual A newborn is completely dependent and isn’t meaningfully any more of an individual. Also can be killed at will?
- dredmorbius 5y agoA newborn is dependent on society. Anyone willing to take on its care can do so. A foetus is dependent upon its mother. Specifically. One person to whom it is biologically attached. Not society generally. Technology is advancing, but costs of transferring care are extraordinarily high, and outcomes quite uncertain.
- quantified 5y agoMissing the umbilical cord. Feeds via mouth, not via nutrients taken from someone’s blood. Breathes air, not oxygen taken from someone’s blood. Physiologically separate. Didn’t kill mom in childbirth.