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You think the moment of birth is more arbitrary than trying to figure out when a clump of cells/a fetus is viable?

• Qem 3y ago
  Yes. I have a sister 15 years younger. My parents still keep her ultrasound plates around. Her ID states she is from this millennium. But yet the timestamps in the plates show she was already here with us in the end of the past millennium. Every time I see them, it gives me an uneasy feeling the way we're used to count our time is just wrong.
  • ChrisClark 3y ago
    But we call it a birthday.
    • Qem 3y ago
      Not everywhere. In portuguese, for example, is called Aniversário. With roots from latin annus(year) + vertere (to come back), meaning what comes back every year. There's no reference to the specific event of being born. Only that it's something that happens every year.
  • watwut 3y ago
    Her id states "birthday". It is quite literally called that and not just in English. The day she was born. Her id states the date she was born, stopped to nested inside another person, started to breath air and started to eat instead of getting oxygen and nutrition via placenta. Her id does not state the day mom and dad had sex, nor the day the sperm joined the egg, nor the day she crossed the line from "few cells" to "something that resembles human in some sense".