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Originally Posted by peter12
No, it's a scientific issue for photon and many others. He seek a rational and material answer to this incredibly complicated moral issue.
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I don't think that's fair at all. Of course it's a moral issue, I just don't think the moral question turns on the same point that others might. Life in and of itself isn't the crux.
Heck HUMAN life in and of itself isn't the crux; I'd be tentatively for extending human rights to chimps.
Why is that? Because I don't think the species we happen to be grants us some special place that we deserve special rights. Rather I think that there's some component of our brain that makes us "people" (for lack of a better word).
Science is just a way of measuring and evaluating something, in and of itself it has no moral position (or it shouldn't).