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Originally Posted by Sadistic-Savior";p="
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If a person is unconscious and doesn't realize that they are being killed, is it okay to kill them? The answer is an obvious "no", so I realized that the net result of killing a zygote and killing a grown adult is the same: One person has been murdered.
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The analogy is not accurate, because even someone in a deep coma has brain activity. Unconscious people can still dream. A zygote has no brain. |
That's true, but a person in a coma wouldn't have any awareness of being killed. If you kill a zygote, you take away all of its future consciousness, just as you take away all future consciousness by killing someone at a later stage in development. This is what matters to me about a zygote: 1. Is it human? 2. Is it living? 3. Is it genetically distinct from the mother? If the answer is yes to all three questions (and it is), then a zygote is a person and so may not be killed without ethically negating everyone's right to life.