My body would most certainly not be alive. My mind, however, is equivalent to a computer software program. You
should know in this computerized age that computer programs can work on many different computers. So, how can you be
certain that the personhood software associated with my mind couldn't be associated with a different body and brain, than the current one? Some such notion is not uncommon in
various fictions.
A computer has nothing on the human brain at this point. This is just silly deflectionary tactics for things that don't fit into your buckets. And what is this fantasy nonsense of yours anyway? If you were aborted, who knows if your "soul" or "personality software" wouldn't end up in another body? Are you kidding me? That's just fictional nonsense you're using to try to deflect from an argument you cannot fit into your predetermined categories.
No, only the human part of my body was once that clump of cells.
Human life is human life
"Potential" and "actual" are still two different things, and there is a "backwards" thing that you might not have noticed you have done. Part of my body's personal past most certainly includes that clump-of-cells stage, but
not every human entity at that stage has the potential you describe. Some of them become
hydatidiform moles, for example.
At least 65% of conceptions only have the potential to die, instead of lead to a successful live birth, most often because of fatally flawed DNA.
And as you show, nature takes care of that. There are lots of natural occurrences that stop a pregnancy from occurring or from being completed. Those are neither here nor there, we aren’t talking about those. We are, obviously, taking about the cases which result in the successful implantation and that would, left to nature, result in a healthy child.
Again, deflection arguments, deal with the actual argument, not things to make up in order to not deal with the actual argument.
It will only become a clever animal, a "feral child". See #96 of this Thread. It will not be able to process language, or do many other things that normal human persons can do, who experienced more than only "left to nature" during their development.
This is an idiotic argument. It will be “feral”, what are you talking about? Even kids who are given up for adoption learn to speak. This is just more nonsense of yours to try to dismiss something you cannot easily categorize.
The entirety of every argument I’ve ever seen you construct is built about making definitions and categories and dismissing anything that doesn’t fit into those because that which doesn’t fit into your little bins won’t bring about the conclusion you want. It’s just an argument in vacuum. Something you constructed that sounds so good in your head, but when presented to others, it doesn’t pan out that well. But instead of refining the argument, you merely make obtuse and dismissive argument in order to try to retain your buckets. It’s why even pro-choice people have a problem with your arguments. They are naïve and childish.
Nice try, but no cigar. Plus there is another entirely different reason why the "continuity" anti-abortion argument is nonsensical. Just pretend
every human birth-event always yielded octuplets, instead of usually just one. That means in your neighborhood, every family trying to raise 3 kids would instead be raising 24, and so on. Massive overpopulation
will be an inevitable consequence of that scenario. While we already have
extremely good evidence that humans are not immune to a Malthusian Catastrophe, in that scenario we would be experiencing such catastrophes as regular events...
So let’s pretend things that don’t happen often, happen all the time and then look at it…it explodes. Let’s not also talk about how if such an absurd notion were to happen, that a whole host of other dynamics would likely also evolve alongside to create balance. Or how a society would actually act if humans gave birth to octuplets all the time. No, let’s just look at this one strict, inflexible way of looking at it because it supports my argument! :roll:
You’re grasping at straws, making up absurd notions, fiction, and ridiculous arguments all to avoid that which you cannot easily categorize.
