Originally Posted By: sini
No you didn't. You alluded to human life, minus sentience, being somehow exceptional. It isn't, unless you bring in metaphysical soul, but at that point logical argument is over. Hence I started questioning you with a hypothetical brain death example that you have avoided.
Are you delusional or did you really only read the first part of my post?

Amazing.
Originally Posted By: sini
Here is question for you. A person gets into car accident and suffers irreversible and complete brain damage. Ventilator is used to sustain life. If I turn ventilator off, do I kill a human? Do I kill a sentient being? Can you be a human and not sentient?
Yes, you're killing a human. No, it has nothing to do with a "soul." It doesn't matter whether or not you're still aware. The reason is, that from here to "reason to kill anyone we want" is a pretty short step.

Derid,
I figured my "first few weeks" caveat would cover that.

My problem with abortion is two fold. One, the father has no say. Two, at some point (I said a few weeks in) the "random mass of tissue" is far enough along that it is, by any reasonable measure, a human and therefore its life is sacrosanct.

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