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Originally Posted by Ammi
...I don’t believe the concept of a soul is nonsensical when there is so much we just don’t know or understand...but I’ll fight you another time/day on that one..  ..‘the point of life’ though, is something which will remain endless in terms of opinion because it varies so much, even in terms of from state to state in a country...it is the law that is determining that point, which is why I found the ‘murder’ one interesting...because in some areas of Australia for instance...?...the law follows the ‘born alive rule’... “This is a common law rule that states that a homicide can only be committed on a legally recognised person, and that a person is not legally recognised until they are “fully born in a living state”...And yet in other areas, killing an unborn child can carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment... |
The debate really is endless because it's all so relative, even beyond birth. Like the vast majority of modern societies would place a baby's life (a born, breathing, crying one) as being more precious than an adult life. Most adults, and certainly parents, would at the very least put themselves at extreme risk to save a baby. But that's not always been the case, at plenty of points in human history infant mortality has been very high and infant deaths even expected/normal. In ye olde cave man times the death of an infant would have been "sad but expected" but the death of an adult provider would have been a tragedy/potential disaster so adult lives would have been considered more important than infant lives even AFTER birth
. It's very much the case in a lot of the animal kingdom, even in mammals, where babies are sometimes killed (even eaten) if it benefits the parent.
Don't worry though, when the apocalypse comes I won't be firing up the barbeque... probably...
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