It's cool how bacteria is considered life on Mars, and an undeveloped baby is just a "fetus"
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You seriously brought an exaggerated term of space exploration to something like abortion? Ugh
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A fetus is considered alive, but not human (which is why it's ok to terminate it). Any hypothetical bacteria on Mars is alive and not human too. I don't understand your point.
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Point is bacteria on Mars would be considered precious and worth pouring millions into to save and nurture. Yet the same people throw a fetus away like it's trash. Why is it that it's a crime to crush the egg of an unborn bald eagle, fineable up to 100,000.00. But we consider a fetus more worthless than a bird? In fact we pay girls to abort their "fetuses".
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Edited by AnAverageGamer: 7/20/2015 7:07:01 PMSupply and demand. Sorry to burst your bubble, but not all life has equal value in the eyes of humanity. There are billions of humans on Earth and more are born every day. There are significantly less bald eagles and the number of living native bacteria cells on Mars is even less than that. Humanity has the luxury of being able to decide whether we want our offspring to fully develop into a self sustaining vehicle or not and so we take advantage of it for comfort and convenience. It's not killing a human, so I don't care. I'll always be pro choice.
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The whole life on Mars example you are using isn't applicable here. The reason life found on Mars would be so coveted is because we would have proof that life can start somewhere other than earth in different conditions. It may even have formed some way of storing and transferring information that is different than DNA, which would be groundbreaking. See how these two things don't belong together now?
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It's still alive, but by definition it is still a fetus until it is born.
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Edited by Masaking7: 7/20/2015 4:17:04 PMA fetus is not a human. It's a clump of cells. It's not a hard concept to grasp.
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[quote]A fetus is not a human. It's a clump of cells. It's not a hard concept to grasp.[/quote]
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Either way, bacteria is life on Mars, and a fetus is worthless? You've further proved my point.
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Bacteria is an organism. A fetus is not.
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[quote]Bacteria is an organism. A fetus is not.[/quote]
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Yes it is. Even abortion scientists agree with that. A fetus is living matter in the same venue, or a higher level than bacteria.
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True. You're not completely stupid then. But a fetus does not think. It does not feel pain. It is not murder. A clump of cells is not a person. It's not illegal to kill viruses. It's not even illegal to kill animals. So no, of course removing a clump of cells isn't murder.
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[quote]True. You're not completely stupid then. But a fetus does not think. It does not feel pain. It is not murder. A clump of cells is not a person. It's not illegal to kill viruses. It's not even illegal to kill animals. So no, of course removing a clump of cells isn't murder.[/quote]
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Edited by tjustie: 7/20/2015 4:17:59 PMI don't see your point. Condors can't be much harder to grasp than any other bird.
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That's what they want you to think...
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Edited by Ogma: Destroyer of Worlds: 7/18/2015 9:55:01 PMThe word "life" is a broad and generalized term that is misused in cases like this. No actual scientist would think of something like that found on Mars as life as it is compared to us. Sentience is the thing in question. This is not a legitimate comparison.
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Welcome to America
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#merica... Land of the deceived, home of the entitled. I used to be proud of this country.
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Edited by Snappy: 7/18/2015 10:03:08 PMWas this back during forced sterilizations and military testing on civilian populace? Or perhaps government sanctioned genocide?
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Don't forget about the internment camps we had long before hitler.
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Ah yes, those were the times to be proud.
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It's like... people just blank out what America has done, historically. I don't understand it. America decimated Vietnam. Murdered between 1-3 MILLION soldiers & civilians. To our 58,000 soldiers. During World War II, America put 110,000 of it's own people into internment camps because of their nationality. They lost everything and were betrayed by their country. But yet... somehow these people "used to be proud of this country". I wonder when that was, and why.
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[quote]#merica... Land of the deceived, home of the entitled. I used to be proud of this country.[/quote] Ditto
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Me too, man. Me too...