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Steve QJ's avatar

"This is a critically inaccurate framing. Life began billions of years ago in the primordial oceans. Life does not arise from dead material "

😅 I feel quite confident you know what I meant Chris.

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Chris Fox's avatar

Yes I am confident that you don't believe human gametes are dead until they form a zygote. Which just makes me wonder why you used the right wing trope of *life* beginning. You're usually more precise than that.

The issue is when a fetus/baby acquires legal protection. It has been alive the entire time. If I had my druthers I would say at the onset of self-awareness, which I remember in my own life, and I was post-birth and still crawling (yes I actually do remember, thinking wordlessly, "why am I crying?") but that is a dangerous forumlation so I am content with humanity being granted at birth.

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