Originally
posted by
KoHeartsGPA:
My wife is an anthropologist, dont bull fluff me, qz....
Heh are you being serious? Any anthropologist who's read up a bit should understand evolution and believe in science 100%; though they do, admittedly, work with a far shorter time frame generally speaking.
Originally
posted by
braden:
"Why should your belief deny them the right to do with their bodies what they will?"
you follow this logic for prostitution and the war on drugs, right? if you can't tell a woman not to murder babies, you can't tell her not to inject heroin on the street or go take it in the ass for a quick fifty.
"What makes you think that an unviable blob of cells is so special and has more rights than many other intelligent creatures?"
just let me grab a meat cleaver, and we'll meet in the coma ward of a hospital, we'll have us a grande ol' time chopping up blobs of cells.
also, ejaculate into a petri dish, let me know how your child is. heck, go get a woman to ovulate into the same petri dish, let me know how your child turns out.
I don't think test-tube babies are that far from reality tbh. As for the war on drugs, well I tend to think it's a waste of time and money; I personally don't do any drugs (unless you count caffeine, and then only rarely), but I think it would be far safer and more efficient to tax and regulate drugs, in a similar way to cigarettes. Obviously some would have to be prohibited still, meth-amphetamine for example can have seriously horrible effects on the brain....
As for your coma-ward comment; some will awaken from a coma, some will not; you can understand wanting to keep alive somebody who's existed for many many years, much energy went into their life; though at some point families should have the option to euthanize if the prospects look hopeless.