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...Currently, our society blindly accepts that anything scientists choose to do in the name of medical research is automatically good, while questioning whether these practices are effective and ethical is characterized as “an insensitive approach to human??sickness?...
More than 30 replies flooded the list in response to Bin-Human??s message. While some criticized the validity of accounts about the killing of Al-Dura, others asked for unbiased book recommendations on the Middle East conflict...
What makes us human??what sets us apart from, say, dogs and chickens—is our consciousness, not the mere fact of our biological existence. A fetus in its first trimester is not a conscious being. It will never know that it might have lived. Its mother, however, is conscious. The characterization of those who have abortions as cold, callow murderers is an unfair rhetorical ploy. The great majority of those who elect to have abortions do so not out of a joy of slaughtering unborn babies, but out of necessity. They inevitably agonize over the decision...
...religious dogma rather than hard evidence. But which point of view, one wonders, is more irrational—the view that an individual and unique homo sapiens comes into existence at conception (it does—ask any scientist), or the view that embryos only “become human?? when they leave the petri dish and are implanted in the uterus? What exactly is the magic of location, anyway...