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Old 08-31-2010, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER View Post
To end something, that has no developed nervous system, is not the same as killing a puppy, or a person. If something has a brain, and can feel pain, then there's some case to be made. Otherwise, these are not comparable. If it were, then you could just go eat 2 raw eggs, n' stop eating scrambled eggs.
It's more fundamental than that. To point to the presence or absence of one organ or structure is not sufficient.

If you found the DNA of a fertilized zygote at a crime scene, you'd assume that there was a unique person there, distinct from the mother and father. And you'd be correct.
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