• notacat@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    It sounds like you’re taking the pregnant person out of the equation as a thought experiment and then stating that this clump of cells that has the potential to become a person should have rights of its own. Even then it’s a little hard to argue since “potential” is abstract. And what is the value of potential? It’s human, so does that give it rights? Does it get rights as soon as an egg is fertilized? Or does its rights grow as it starts getting more human-like? Why should this clump of cells have more rights than, say, a full-fledged penguin? I don’t think this thought experiment is very useful to anyone without a religious belief in the specialness of human embryos.

    • joe@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      As I’ve said, many, many, many times already, we already have a system in place to say that two people both have rights, but in some instances, one of those person’s rights take precedence over another person’s rights-- like in cases of killing in self-defense.

      And we do give rights to animals. Just not the same we give to humans.

      You know rights are just something humans made up, right?