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Originally Posted by grant
I think the important question is when life (under some minimal definition) becomes life worth protecting.
Now we can examine the assumption that life is somehow sacred!
Is it?
I think it's a good idea to treat it that way. But who can know if it's true? Nobody I know.
(Here I go again, breaking my personal rule about posting in the Politics/Current Events/Philosophy forums.)
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It's a good indication that life is worth protecting and the particular life is sacred when the mother elects to advance the organism. Beyond that, why should anyone feel motivated to nurture that which is not desired by its own mother?