Czernobog
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Thank you for being clear. They aren't. The point is there is no such thing as a "child in an embryonic state". And you know there isn't, this is why you keep refusing to say whehter you will save 1,000 "children in embryonic state", or a five-year-old child, if you had to make a choice.How the right of the one what is contingent on the right of the other what?And, without twisting a single word in the pre-amble, the Constitution never defines "person".Agh, but you see, you're just making my case for me. The embryos have relative value, and the only person who has the right to determine the weight of that relative value is the person who owns the embryo. Not me. And not you.
Again, you are trying to change the parameters, in order to avoid making the obvious moral choice.
No need. This is only a relevant question, if you insist that an embryo is a person. If you insist that, then you should have no problem sating unequivocally that you would choose to save the 1,000 children over the single child. You see, you keep trying to insist that an embryo is a person, when the whole point of the thought experiment exposes the reality that you don't.
The Constitution says that ALL persons are entitled to the EQUAL protections of our laws.
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That is the ONLY "value" assessment that matters.
Lets' get the semantic argument out of the way. The Constitution speaks of "posterity". Many anti-abortionists (I presume you) make a big deal out of the fact that an obscure synonym of posterity is "unborn", and claim that mean in vitro.
The problem is that no jurist has ever attempted to make this connection in any ruling, ever. Further, the actual definition of the word posterity makes it clear that this was never the intent of the framers of the Constitution regarding this word:
Clearly, posterity means succeeding generations of actual descendants, not in vitro fetuses.
- Succeeding or future generations collectively:
Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- all descendants of one person:
His fortune was gradually dissipated by his posterity.
Now that we have that bit of semantic silliness out of the way, calling a fetus, or an embryo a "person" is a question of moral equivalency. It is the point of the thought experiment in the OP. IF you believe that an embryo is a "person", then you should have no problem saying with conviction, that you should choose the phial of embryos over the 5-year-old. I'm still waiting for you to make that statement.
I'm still waiting on YOU to explain how the rights of one is contingent upon the other.
You just aren't very bright at all. Are you.
How are the rights of the children in an embryonic stage of their life in ANY way contingent upon how much or how little they are fucking valued in comparison to a fucking screaming baby in a burning building?