[quote]Big Banana wrote:
[quote]PatMac wrote:
[quote]bigflamer wrote:
This silliness about “it’s just a clump of cells”, “tadpoles”, and “it could be a goat”, is beyond laughable. Like we’re supposed to believe that human reproduction is some crap shoot or something. Like a woman rolls into the doctors office to have an ultrasound, and the doctor says “you need to know that there’s the possibility that your clump of cells will develop into a goat”. lol
Are we not all just a “clump of cells”, regardless of the life cycle stage we are in? Yes, when a woman’s egg is fertilized by a man’s sperm, it is indeed a clump of cells; a [i]CLUMP OF HUMAN CELLS[/i] that will continue to develop and proceed through it’s life cycle, just like the rest of the cell clumps walking around. [/quote]
Pretty much. We think we’re important, but we’re just giant meat sacks. $7 worth of carbon if want like.
But unless you actually see the inherent worthlessness of each of us, the clump of cells is going to be a nonstarter.[/quote]
Perhaps your sense of self worth is that low. If it is you have my sympathy and recommendation that you seek some form of counseling. [/quote]
And I’d suggest the same for you, for the opposite reason. I’m extremely confident in my knowledge that whatever value I have is meaningless, an abstraction. It’s only when we see the truth that we’re able to engage the world effectively.
To clear it up for you - there are too many humans on the planet for any one of us to have any greater value than anyone else.
In order for something to have value, it needs to be scarce. As far as I can tell, there is no shortage of humans and we can create them endlessly; even with the millions of abortions performed each year, our population is growing.
In fact, each of us has less value with each new person birthed.