I don't know what has happened to the concept of privacy. Mainstream media seems more concerned with delving into the life of Laci Peterson or Martha Stewart instead of investigating issues that concern millions of Americans civil liberties.
The issue is about human rights. What human rights should "potential" life have? I have been hearing about how stem cell research is the same as the Nazis experimenting on innocent individuals. It seems different. Destroying an embryo for research does not seem ethically equivalent to experimenting on an individual person. The embryo's are not going to experience pain, and do not yet have consciousness.
If I have the potential to play the piano, it doesn't mean that I am a piano player. Potential and actualization are two very different things.
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I don't know what has happened to the concept of privacy. Mainstream media seems more concerned with delving into the life of Laci Peterson or Martha Stewart instead of investigating issues that concern millions of Americans civil liberties.
The issue is about human rights. What human rights should "potential" life have? I have been hearing about how stem cell research is the same as the Nazis experimenting on innocent individuals. It seems different. Destroying an embryo for research does not seem ethically equivalent to experimenting on an individual person. The embryo's are not going to experience pain, and do not yet have consciousness. If I have the potential to play the piano, it doesn't mean that I am a piano player. Potential and actualization are two very different things.