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Originally Posted by Okamifujutsu
So I've noticed. Also, I see Godwin's law strikes again. I'll back up to the last remotely relavent arguement I saw, which was whether a sperm and an egg are alive. Which is barely relevent, since it would be very hard to classify them as dead. The relevent question would be, is it a life seperate from the parents. The problems arise for the exact same reason they do with my original question, which is that the concept of a life, a person, a human being, becomes so incredibly vague when you apply it to a microscopic level. A single cell in any form is so far removed from what we think of as a person that trying to label this or that as a human life becomes a matter of pure feelings. That reduces all arguements on the matter to "I think this", "Well I think this". And that's where Hitler lurks.
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Okamifujutsu.
I have to disagree with you.
The fact that different people have differing opinions on the matter of when life begins, is a recipe for healthy debate in my personal opinion.
Holding and stating differing opinions on when one believes
'life actually begins' does not, to my mind, necessarily mean that Hitler is
'lurking' anywhere.
Only when such personal opinions become an
all encompassing ideology, an unmovable quest, that uses sophisticated chicanery to impose such an ideology on the majority, using intimidation and aggression as a means to an end, could ones opinions be construed as dangerous, or '
Hitleresque'.