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Originally Posted by Otto Harkaman
I didn't say anything like that. I asked you, if you would have liked to have been aborted?
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That quesiton only makes sense when the use of the term "you/me/I" make sense. And for that a brain with sufficient complexity to form mind, awareness, ego, personality etc are precondition.
Where there is no "you", there is no self that can like or dislike anything. It does not exist. And a self, in the widest meaning of the term cannot form up without bio-material structures needed for maintaining it being in place.
A beating heart means nothing. Its as much a human as this already is a living frog:
Its he brain that makes all what we describe as "human". Not the heart -
the brain. Cerebrum. Diencephalon. Brain stem. Cerebellum. Basal ganglia. Limbic system.
Without this, with such brain structures not yet existent or already being dead, what you have is not a human, but is reflex-bound flesh. Not even instinct-driven: instincts demand the existence of a sufficiently complex brain as well.
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There is an implication in that medieval Texas law that is not ebign mentione dhere. That si the bounty.-hunting that it propagates, and the defamation encorzagement. That even taxi drivers who drive a women that meets a doctor doing abpertions can get hunted down andmamde paying - without the driver needing to know anything. Staff in hpsiutals in texas is nreprted to be concenred for beign held liable for abportions in their clinbis even if they have nothign to do with it.
It turns everybody into a potential spy on others, and a bounty hunter. Great. This way mistrust gets sown and social cohesion get hollowed out from inside, every dictatorship works like this.