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Originally Posted by nezmot
Interesting, an insect has life, and yet, would it be easier to crush a bug, or smash up a computer?
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Well, it's pretty darn easy for me to crash a computer.
Initially, my thought is that it's the bug's will to live, and will to procreate that sets it apart from a computer. Also, a human, or a collection of humans, dictated every single aspect of any computer's capabilities. That's not true with offspring. If a computer does not function to the parameters intended, then it's a flaw, not a personality trait, heh.
I don't see cloning as disgracing the divine, it's no worse that artificial insemination, which in it's own time caused controversy, but by now is an accepted alternative to "natural" conception. But I don't see any benefit to cloning at all...except for maybe sheep or something that produces the "perfect" wool, I dunno.
Regarding abortion, I myself believe that life is valuable, should be protected, and that at a point abortion is snuffing out life. At what point is a collection of cells, of potential, life? For me, it's brainwaves. No one has ever returned from being brain dead, and that's a point where it's generally accepted that it's OK to turn off life support, etc. So when brainwaves start (and I have to confess, I don't know when that is for human fetuses) to me is when life starts.
The thing is, do we definitively know FOR CERTAIN when brain wave activity starts, or could it be that our instrumentation is just too limited to detect it before that point?