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Originally Posted by T_Ereponemos
It may be murder but it is not my place to get in their way of exploiting technology to their own benefit.
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Is it your place to get in the way of a man who is going to exploit the technology of a .38 special to end his wife's nagging? Is it your place to say no to anyone who wants to kill someone else who is not an immediate threat to their life?
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Originally Posted by T_Ereponemos
Without them it cannot live, like a comatose relative, or a dieing pet, therefore they should ultimately be allowed to choose it's life or death.
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More weak arguments. If you had a strong position, do you believe it would be necessary to compare a perfectly healthy living human being to someone who is so sick or injured that they can't reasonably be expected to recover or a dying animal? Is that really as good as your argument gets?
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Originally Posted by T_Ereponemos
It's life can become agony as the underage mother plummets into debt and can barely keep her and her child alive. Necessary sacrifices, it's for the soon to be child
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So do you favor going about killing children who we know beyond doubt are living in very poor families and require sacrifices? Following your logic, you must be. After all, how do you justify killing a child based on what "might" happen without also advocating killing children who you can readily identify as suffering the same fate you advocate killing children who might suffer it?
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Originally Posted by T_Ereponemos
Please, at least give me 3 reasons that it's not parasitism, Argument aside, I really am curious so if you can convince me I will relabel it with no question.
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Sure, no problem.
First and foremost, a parasite, by definition, is described as an organism of one species living in or on an organism of another species (a heterospecific relationship) (See Cheng, T.C., General Parasitology, p. 7, 1973.)
An unborn is an organism of one species (Homo sapiens) living in the uterine cavity of an organism of the same species (Homo sapiens) and deriving its nourishment from the mother (is metabolically dependent on the mother). This homospecific relationship is an obligatory dependent relationship, but not a parasitic relationship.
Second, A parasite is an invading organism, that is, it comes to parasitize the host from an outside source
An unborn is the result of the fertilization of an egg. The egg comes from an inside source. It is formed in the ovary of the mother
Number three. A parasite is generally detrimental to the reproductive capacity of the invaded host. The host may be weakened, diseased or killed by the parasite, thus reducing or eliminating the host's capacity to reproduce.
An unborn is absolutely essential to the reproductive capacity of the involved mother (and species). The mother(in normal circumstances) is not weakened, diseased or killed by the presence of the child, but rather is fully tolerant of this offspring which must begin his or her life in this intimate and highly specialized relationship with the mother.
There are numerous other reasons, but if you only want three, I suppose these will do. Parasites are what they are and unborns simply can not be accurately characterized as parasites.
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Originally Posted by T_Ereponemos
My neighbor was not the reason for my conception nor is the soul purpose of my existence.
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The point is that you have the right to live because you are a human being and your right to live trumps any right that anyone else may invoke so long as you don't represent an imenent threat to their life.