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This who debate boils down to drawing hard lines on top of gradients. I find it uncomplicated to argue that a blastula is not a human (yet) and the potential fo
by etrautmann 4y ago
This who debate boils down to drawing hard lines on top of gradients. I find it uncomplicated to argue that a blastula is not a human (yet) and the potential for life is not a useful moral metric either (otherwise it'd be immoral not to maximize fertilization and child output).
Everything in between a few cells and a baby is a gradient between next to nothing and complete humanness, and somehow we need to agree where lines should be drawn to binarize this gray area for moral and legal decision making. It's clearly an impossible task, so the fight will persist.
- rayiner 4y agoI generally agree, but to nitpick: I’d say a blastula is a “human” insofar as the term identifies a distinct organism of the human species. But it may not be a “person.”