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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Ok this is quite funny really. Instead of Iraqi's you could use someone who died in a police hostage standoff, or maybe the 40k a year who die in car crashes in the US every year.
Lets try it on for size....
If you are willing to sacrifice 40,000 people a year in traffic accidents I don't understand the unwillingness to use those embryos.
Or maybe this one.....
If you are willing to eat apples I don't understand your unwillingness to eat oranges.
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That doesn't make any sense.
The Iraqi deaths I'm talking about were
preventable and are a direct result of a political decision to go to war, one that you support. In this case, the loss of life is, to you, worth what we might potentially achieve (but so far have not done).
But when it comes to stem cell research, it appears that the possible or potential benefits to medicine are not worth the loss of mere embryos.
You don't see a contradiction there when it comes to the value placed on life? What's 'silly' about this?