From a lefty I know..."Yeah, it's murder, but that's okay as long as I view the victim as an inconvenience."
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Which is a nonsensical argument. The zygote is designed to develop at a certain rate and sentience is not an objective measure, it’s a subjective one, it’s like saying marriage is between people that love each other. A zygote will always reach sentience if there is no interference. This is the same argument as a man put into a medical coma, if he is expected to fully recover is he not alive?
I've been wondering if a brain or nervous system is even a requirement for sentience, given what we know about green plants and other so-called "lower forms of life."
That's not even true because there are such things as stillbirths etc. even when the fetus is developing in a natural state and of course there's the issue of disease or babies becoming disabled. Also sentience absolutely can be objectively measured, we do it with animals all the time. It's the sort of thing that drives people especially vegans nuts to even consider. Then there's the issue of AI where people are fooling themselves into thinking that lines of code can have sentience.
This is something I've got a massively autistic interest in because of my own work with code and the issue of machine learning but I'll try not to get too off topic with that lol. I've been pondering a lot with regards to abortion/brain pattern argument the issue of artificial brains.
What part of interference is confusing you? There’s nothing in the biological design of a zygote that doesn’t lead to sentience. Interference in the development process is what creates a stillbirth, whether it is genetic mutation, lack of nutrients, abortion etc.
No we have a scaled concept that is constantly in flux. If you ask 500 bioethicists what sentient means you get 50000 answers. Like love, sentience is a concept, but not one held to any rigidity or objective standards.
Again these are all subjective descriptions.
I bet you also have a really smart black friend whose existence proves niggers aren't retarded.