stem-cell research Options

[smile4me]

do you support stem-cell researching? why or why not?
should federal funding be given to these researchers?
do you support embryonic or adult stem cells (or both)?

[sammi rules you]

i don't think anyone has the right to decide what is morally acceptable for other people to do. each and every person has their own set of morals, different from anyone else's and people have the right to make their own choices. not everyone is going to bow down to one person's set of morals. if a person thinks it's morally acceptable for them to use a lab to create a kid because they want their DNA to be in their child, then so be it. you may not like it, and wouldn't do it yourself, and that's fine. but you don't have the right to tell them it's not right and to stop the couple from doing so.

[gotblog4me?]

i don't think anyone has the right to decide what is morally acceptable for other people to do. each and every person has their own set of morals, different from anyone else's and people have the right to make their own choices. not everyone is going to bow down to one person's set of morals. if a person thinks it's morally acceptable for them to use a lab to create a kid because they want their DNA to be in their child, then so be it. you may not like it, and wouldn't do it yourself, and that's fine. but you don't have the right to tell them it's not right and to stop the couple from doing so.

O.K, for that up there^^ thats true, we can;t make ppl choose the right thing to do, but that doesnt change thew fact that it is bad, and if every1 had their own set of morals to live by, that means that one person can think its "moral" to commit murder, so you can't tell him he's wrong b/c he has his own set of morals now doesnt he? hence, there has to be some sort of moral order, it isn't moral to kill someone with no just cause. Don't you see how your reasoning would bring the world into complete chaos!?

Ah, my other favorite debate tactic--when you can't make a legitimate point, put words in someone else's mouth to make it look like he is unable to make a point.

I do not agree that all eleven are "alive," nor did I ever say that--certainly not less than "10 sentances [sic]" above. You misunderstood my point about nurturing, so let me clarify for you. I do not consider a fertilized egg to be a "person." A person is a human who has been born, who has been introduced into an environment outside a womb and is nurtured in some way with the goal of turning that person into an adult.

A fertilized egg is not "alive." It cannot exist outside of a womb. It is not living.

as for that, don;t you see, he's not saying you deliberately said you considered those life, but that you end up contradicting yourself when first you say, these embryos have no potential to live (they are not alive, they cannot live, etc, anyway you want to put it) but in saying that "So one fertilized egg is implanted into the woman's uterus to develop into a baby" you disprove your your first statement, by showing that the embryo does have the potential to live! and henceforth is alive.

Just because something cannot survive, outside of a certain environment, doesnt mean it isn't living... that's like saying, "oh, there's a baby crying in a trash can, it cant survive there, so it must not be living anymore"

and by the statement "do not consider a fertilized egg to be a "person." A person is a human who has been born, who has been introduced into an environment outside a womb and is nurtured in some way with the goal of turning that person into an adult." that a 8 month year old baby, still in a mother's womb, who can feel and react to pain, and has all the characteristics of a normal human being, is not a person? as i said before, you cannot decide when someone gets a soul, or becomes a person.

Oh, and by the way, for that same person with the smiley big mouthed face avatar (no offense, this is a friendly debate of course) for your information, any possible theory for evolution has been proven wrong, and I'm not saying i don't believe that we evolved, I actually do, however I also believe in something called an "ultimate designer" (a.k.a: God) so saying we are just more advanced forms of life, and the fact that we are smarter than other animals by chance, is completely bogus.