well how much brain activity is significant? Any at all, or a specific amount?
I happen to not have studied brain science. When do you believe that something gains the rights of a human?
I am not a materialist. I think its wrong to kill a human once the zygotes become one thing. Thats when it becomes a he or she. But I dont want to challenge the premises here in this thread, at least. “rights” are a social construct and we assign them to whomever or whatever we like. Fine. How much human brain activity are you comfortable with terminating? A medical degree is not a necessary qualification for answering this question.
I presume there is some brain structure that allows us to “feel” and “experience” at a meaningful level. Beyond that, I am not qualified to point to a spot and say “here!”
And why should a zygote have the rights of a human? What if we take a stem cell, remove half the DNA, and inject that of someone else. Does it then have rights? (I might be messing up the medical terms here, but I am probably not too far off target).
meaning requires reference to someone’s intellect. If it was meaningful to the adults in question, we wouldnt be having this discussion. Therefore we must be trying to make an intersubjective evaluation between ourselves and the young human in question. In my opinion, by this standard, any brain activity at all is sufficient, as it is less arbitrary. To choose the presence or absence of brain activity is one arbitration, to select a particular amount as significant is another. Parsimony.
Well it all boils down to values. I value human life. I dont think that people with Downs syndrome are less human or less worthy of life. I dont think that young children are any different from adults, I dont think that old people should be euthanized, and I dont believe in killing humans before they are born. I dont even believe in capital punishment or retributive killings. I think that when people have the caloric surplus and leisure time available to attract someone of the opposite sex, they should do something more productive than fuck like bunnies and slaughter the product. I am not happy with the idea of a woman performing a chemical abortion herself, prior to brain activity, or especially afterwards, but I would not crusade against it or selling the chemicals or whatever. This method is allegedly historical and effective, although I dont claim to even know what herb she would take and I certainly oppose such activity.
the really interesting thing is how quickly abortion becomes clearly, obviously, in-your-face evil when it theoretically could be performed via the use of drugs into the 9th month of pregnancy. No, its much more important to hire a trained assassin with a license from the government to slaughter your fetus in the must disgusting, gruesome manner imaginable. So we can chop up the human remains and…do all sorts of hideous things. Like make vaccines. And inject children with them.
so I think I am standing on rather firm ground when I claim that it is a form of ritual satanic murder sacrifice performed by ordained ministers of the state religion.
Thats a very good question and I think its probably wrong to even perform the act you describe, although I am not qualified to say.
I would get some guys who were really good at seeing auras and a kirlian device from the doctor in russia and do a side by side experiment with a test tube baby and the experiment you describe. The data from the witnesses and the camera would answer your question, in theory, because you would see the soul or you wouldnt.