Thursday, July 20, 2006

Dumb Question

Why is it that when a frozen embryo is killed, that's immoral, but when an innocent child is killed in a war zone, that's collateral damage?

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why are we reluctant to execute a death row inmate when there is a chance of innocence, yet we have no problem with abortion when we have yet to establish at what point life begins? Should we err on the side of safety in both instances in order to preserve life?

Ayatollah Mugsy said...

Perhaps we could compromise by using only Iraqi embryos for stem cell research.

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Anonymous said...

Instead of trying to disqualify the question, why don't you try answering it?

Anonymous said...

Collateral damage is just that - the unfortunate and unintended consequences of taking up arms.

Using an embryo for medical research when no one has defined when life begins is an intentional action taken against an organism that may or may not be "life".

JMG said...

Anonymous (#1), perhaps erring on the side of life, as our president has said in the past, is a good idea.

Homelessguy, if I had wanted to disqualify the question, I wouldn't have bothered asking it. Perhaps you have the answer?

Tony Arnold said...

Because we would rather spend time debating an unanswerable question (exact moment of life) vs. taking responsibility for our decisions and actions (waging war)?

thehomelessguy: maybe JMG has an answer but what to hear our's unbiased before sharing hers?

Tony

Ayatollah Mugsy said...

Actually, Bush allows federally funded research on a limited number of useless stem cell lines with damaged DNA.