Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 3636 Country: the catacombs in san callisto
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:45 pm Title:
Grazie, Imp. ... You'll doubtless by getting a slew of random, horrendously butchered Italian thrown at you via AIM and God knows what else. The professor is lovely, but hard to follow; I think I'll be needing all the practice I can get, in double negatives and just about everywhere else. ^_^
And on the subject of AIM, if you ended up with two requests from a dream-inclined soul, the one to accept is "dreamnonymous". I had another at some point (I think), but I was going through all of my many email accounts the other day and several well-meaning messenger IDs met their untimely demises along the way.
Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 3636 Country: the catacombs in san callisto
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:12 pm Title:
The postal system finally carries out my nefarious bidding! ... I shall have to send them flowers. ^_^ And you're very welcome for the card. Forgive me if it was a bit disconnected, I wrote it in the evening after calculus class and my mind was doing its bizarre, haywire thing.
E parlo molto male l'italiano - [non?] capisco niente.
Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 938 Country: I wish it was in my comfy bed, under the covers...
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:43 pm Title:
The idea that you would treat a six-year-old the same way you would treat a zygote repulses me. It would be like treating a kernel of corn the same way you would treat a popcorn. A zygote is not a human being. It simply is not.
Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 938 Country: I wish it was in my comfy bed, under the covers...
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:00 am Title:
" The difference then, is purely environment and size? "
What do you mean by that?
The different then is purely humanity. I believe a six-year-old boy, or a sixteen-year-old girl, or a fourty-year-old woman, are more human than a zygote. I'm sorry if you don't think that way--it's logical, really. It's like environmentalist who fight against cutting trees: they're tree-huggers, not seed-huggers. Sure, they plant seeds, but they don't call against the destruction of seeds, now do they?
Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 938 Country: I wish it was in my comfy bed, under the covers...
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:24 am Title:
That argument is entirely irrelevant, A six-year-old boy is a human being--he can survive out of his mother's womb. He is a potential adult man, which is why his parents don't treat him like he's a full-blown adult. A fertilized egg is a potential human being.
Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 938 Country: I wish it was in my comfy bed, under the covers...
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:19 pm Title:
A fertilized egg is a potential baby, just like a sperm cell. It is a potential human being. It's not a human being. It can't survive off of its host. It has the possibility, the prospect of becoming a human being--the woman is already a human being. It's just like an acorn and an oak tree--will you build your house on the acorn just like you would if it was an oak tree? When you regard a possibility of a human being more than an actual human being, well then, you've got something messed up in your priorities.
