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<blockquote data-quote="Lux" data-source="post: 55884" data-attributes="member: 105">My phrasing was regarding personhood but I think the same difference in premises applies.Yeah I definitely don&#039;t affirm this jfl. This is pillar where our worldviews differ significantly. It is self evident to me that the life of a 80 iq fent addict who molested some kid and can&#039;t get a job is not equally precious to some politician&#039;s kid.&nbsp; I&#039;ll accept your premise that human life begins at fertilization for the sake of progressing the argument.Given this I would say the real crux of our difference here is I believe ending a human life can be ethically acceptable if the human is not a person. Especially given the majority of human life (75%) already ends without ever reaching personhood, as we established. With so much ending of life without ever achieving personhood, the value of a human life by this definition would become much less. Kind of like littering on a planet made of trash. The intention of the action looses meaning in a context where the outcome is already overwhelming and common.Especially if you can contrast this with a different action like the killing of a person which is no longer a parallel process.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lux, post: 55884, member: 105"] My phrasing was regarding personhood but I think the same difference in premises applies. Yeah I definitely don't affirm this jfl. This is pillar where our worldviews differ significantly. It is self evident to me that the life of a 80 iq fent addict who molested some kid and can't get a job is not equally precious to some politician's kid. I'll accept your premise that human life begins at fertilization for the sake of progressing the argument. Given this I would say the real crux of our difference here is I believe ending a human life can be ethically acceptable if the human is not a person. Especially given the majority of human life (75%) already ends without ever reaching personhood, as we established. With so much ending of life without ever achieving personhood, the value of a human life by this definition would become much less. Kind of like littering on a planet made of trash. The intention of the action looses meaning in a context where the outcome is already overwhelming and common. Especially if you can contrast this with a different action like the killing of a person which is no longer a parallel process. [/QUOTE]

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