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If embryos are people, then there is a social duty to allow all of them to exist to the best of our ability. Taken to the extreme, this would involve conscript
by chasil 3y ago
If embryos are people, then there is a social duty to allow all of them to exist to the best of our ability.
Taken to the extreme, this would involve conscription of those to provide the physical birth.
That would be a horrific path for us to follow as a culture for a collection of cells that have no nervous tissue, and no capability of sentience.
There is a large number of people who believe that life begins at conception. Requiring those people to host discarded embryos would likely change their beliefs with remarkable speed.
- COGlory 3y agoCan you name any principle or right that is actually taken to a logical extreme by society? I can own a gun, but not a nuclear bomb. I have free speech, but I can't make fake 911 calls. I can't have soldiers quartered in my house, but I can be drafted. No rights are taken to their logical extreme. It's a bit of a fallacious argument.
- chasil 3y agoWell, let's consider Imminent Lawless Action and its predecessors. "Under the imminent lawless action test, speech is not protected by the First Amendment if the speaker intends to incite a violation of the law that is both imminent and likely." That seems extreme to me in preserving freedom of speech. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action