Reply #41: I never said that was the current ruling legal definition... [View All]

[MellowDem]

just stating my opinion. Legal definitions make sense in the legal field. In the moral/cultural field, they are just another opinion.

And by quite a few legal and scientific definitions it could be considered a human. So it is indeed your opinion, and not a fact that it is not a living human. To me, scientifically, it is quite easily a human. That is why I have the opinion I do. I don't know what makes it not a human. It is a genetically unique individual. It may even become two or more individuals. It may abort itself. But it is, at that time, IMHO, a human.

There are no "facts" about such philosophical questions anyways. They are all entirely opinions, though facts may be used to try to reinforce an opinion.