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Not separate, but it is a living thing. If you starved your hand off by constricting the blood flow, I don’t think anyone would question you when you say your hand is dead.
Actually isn’t that literally called dying off in English?
I think we’re using 2 different meanings of “dead” here. There’s “dead” as in “dead tissue” and “dead” as in “corpse”. My point was that a fetus fits the first meaning of “dead”, but not the second. You can’t “kill” a fetus.
I don’t really think we are. A corpse is also just dead tissue after all. I don’t think there’s a significant difference in semantics here.
At the end of the day I don’t think we should be debating the meaning of the words, just what we think they represent.
The main difference (to me) is when it’s a separate living being. I would definitely call a just-conceived foetus “alive”, but it’s not an individual yet, and I would have no issue with aborting it.
Also I do want to make clear I’m very pro-abortion. I’m just autistic and get triggered by “misinformation” (this isn’t misinformation but again my autistic ass can’t think of the proper term).
My hand also consumes nutrients to live. Is it a separate living being from me?
Not separate, but it is a living thing. If you starved your hand off by constricting the blood flow, I don’t think anyone would question you when you say your hand is dead.
Actually isn’t that literally called dying off in English?
I think we’re using 2 different meanings of “dead” here. There’s “dead” as in “dead tissue” and “dead” as in “corpse”. My point was that a fetus fits the first meaning of “dead”, but not the second. You can’t “kill” a fetus.
I don’t really think we are. A corpse is also just dead tissue after all. I don’t think there’s a significant difference in semantics here.
At the end of the day I don’t think we should be debating the meaning of the words, just what we think they represent.
The main difference (to me) is when it’s a separate living being. I would definitely call a just-conceived foetus “alive”, but it’s not an individual yet, and I would have no issue with aborting it.
Also I do want to make clear I’m very pro-abortion. I’m just autistic and get triggered by “misinformation” (this isn’t misinformation but again my autistic ass can’t think of the proper term).
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