I don't think I did much thinking before I
had a brain. Not that I do much with a
brain, lol!
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Jincks013
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Posted: 04-18-08 09:13am
jujujellybean
wrote:
Lilly Ivy
wrote:
what I don't understand is
the fact that even once the baby is born,
the mother still makes EVERY decision for
that baby, especially medical wise. So why
shouldn't she make the choice BEFORE it's
a newborn baby? She nourishes it, so she
chooses what nutrients it gets. Why not
choose to keep it or
not?
I HATE HATE HATE IT when people say that.
Would appreciate someone choosing whether
or not to keep
you???
Since this would have happened long before
any kind of self awareness it is merely
emotionalizing rhetoric. Thats like saying
"aren't you glad you didn't have to die in
the gladiators arena?
Not possible.
Nor is it possible for a 12 week gestation
to be mentally self aware. The area of the
brain that governs self awareness won't
develope for another 12 weeks or so at
least.
Oh and Eiri..whatever you want to call
yourself now. Nice chart but you are again
leaving out what makes human tissue a
person; being born, having self awareness
so it really is a blob of cells.
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Tylanas
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Posted: 04-18-08 09:21am
I think awareness is what makes you a
person. Birth makes you an independent
person.
And when I think of a blob of cells, it is
a formless, unpotential blob. Even at the
earliest stages of life, a human is
symmetrical and has great potential.
