Is it telling a woman what to do with her body when the embryos are not yet in her body? Because these embryos are created in a lab using material from both parents, they at least ought to have equal say in the matter. But that's not my main point.
I believe that a human at birth possesses an intrinsic, sovereign right to life. I further believe that the physical body (i.e. a fancy clump of cells no matter what your stage of development) is accompanied by a soul which grants it the right to life from the very moment it enters that body. I admit that I have no proof of the soul or when it arrives, but there are many aspects of life which cannot be proven; I call them "evident" while you might call them "emergent."
It's worth remembering that in this case, the parents always make a free choice to create these embryos. They do not "find" themselves in the situation either by accident or by corruption. Rather, they choose to assert not simply the right to reproduce or not produce, neither the right for the woman to terminate a pregancy, but rather simply to throw out some clumps of cells on the basis of preference.
So, why is this a problem for me? While you state your complete non-concern for your clump of cells, I on the other hand acknowledge an intrinsic worth and grant it enormous importance. And while you might call my position "unreasonable," you would have to admit that the entire question is beyond reason itself. You can no more prove an embryo deserves no consideration than I can that it does, although in my favor I do have thousands of years of human tradition (Christian and otherwise) in many forms which says that it probably does. I can cite the natural human inclinations -- whether evolved or given, some respect ought to be paid them -- to love, to serve others, and protect the innocent from harm. You have a rule of thumb which says if you cannot observe and reason it, there's not a chance it's there.
Therefore, in a situation which does not violate the rights of any man or any woman, except where these men and women claim a right to select which amongst uneniably existing and living entities should live or die, I think one must defer to the chance that the soul is there.
If you create embryos, then give birth to them or give them to someone else who will. Better yet, wait until they can screen eggs and sperm so that you don't have to create excess embryos at all.
But it comes back to this: you can't kill kids that aren't in the woman's body.
I stay away from the free (as in beer) speeches, especially those after which you're likely to wake up the next morning with a headache, stuck with an ugly-ass timeshare you won't be able to get rid of anytime soon.
Just don't send it in to HP for repair, unless you want to risk having them replace it with an inferior part. They pulled that switch on me last summer when I sent in my HP notebook on warranty (sent it back with a crappy low-res screen instead of the original one). 5 months later of dealing with their worthless, lying, evasive case managers, I gave up because it just wasn't worth the utter frustration. In total, on a 14 month old machine, they had it for 6 freaking months.
I created a temp directory on the root of my group's file server, which so pissed off the server admin that word started to get around about what I'd done (almost as bad as not putting the new cover sheet on a TPS report, I guess). I swear she gave me the evil eye for the next 8 months.
there's a reason there's a bump on the 'F' and 'J' keys on the keyboard
In 2015 you'll be paying a subscription fee for the Windows Experience Enhancement Module that blesses your system with F'nJ-bump keyboard compatibility.
Relax. They have six months to pick up the ball, and even at that who cares?
Perhaps they are rightly spending time on critical issues such as people running live wires into passenger jet fuel tanks, which -- on the face of it -- seems like a really bad idea.
About a week after my stereo, amp, sub, and speakers were stolen out of my truck, some guys I knew bought an amp and subs from a guy in a white cargo van just a block away from where my truck had been. Since my insurance covered everything, I decided it'd be less grief for me just to ignore it. But damn, I sure wanted to turn those pricks in.
I hate to be a grammar cop, but unless you are regarding the members of a group individually, then the collective is singular, not plural. What the headline implies is that Blue Origin is a group of independently acting people, some of whom have released their own flight videos. I doubt that's the case.
Slashdot Mirror
Or 'The Big Slosh of '58.'
Is it telling a woman what to do with her body when the embryos are not yet in her body? Because these embryos are created in a lab using material from both parents, they at least ought to have equal say in the matter. But that's not my main point.
I believe that a human at birth possesses an intrinsic, sovereign right to life. I further believe that the physical body (i.e. a fancy clump of cells no matter what your stage of development) is accompanied by a soul which grants it the right to life from the very moment it enters that body. I admit that I have no proof of the soul or when it arrives, but there are many aspects of life which cannot be proven; I call them "evident" while you might call them "emergent."
It's worth remembering that in this case, the parents always make a free choice to create these embryos. They do not "find" themselves in the situation either by accident or by corruption. Rather, they choose to assert not simply the right to reproduce or not produce, neither the right for the woman to terminate a pregancy, but rather simply to throw out some clumps of cells on the basis of preference.
So, why is this a problem for me? While you state your complete non-concern for your clump of cells, I on the other hand acknowledge an intrinsic worth and grant it enormous importance. And while you might call my position "unreasonable," you would have to admit that the entire question is beyond reason itself. You can no more prove an embryo deserves no consideration than I can that it does, although in my favor I do have thousands of years of human tradition (Christian and otherwise) in many forms which says that it probably does. I can cite the natural human inclinations -- whether evolved or given, some respect ought to be paid them -- to love, to serve others, and protect the innocent from harm. You have a rule of thumb which says if you cannot observe and reason it, there's not a chance it's there.
Therefore, in a situation which does not violate the rights of any man or any woman, except where these men and women claim a right to select which amongst uneniably existing and living entities should live or die, I think one must defer to the chance that the soul is there.
If you create embryos, then give birth to them or give them to someone else who will. Better yet, wait until they can screen eggs and sperm so that you don't have to create excess embryos at all.
But it comes back to this: you can't kill kids that aren't in the woman's body.
They ought to have tracking stations everywhere, so that whenever you blow past a stop sign or red light, the front wheel locks up solid.
Go easy on him; his country is probably still using the single file line formation.
And he's probably their Great Leader.
You've got a point. Maybe they would have been better off spending all those stabilization funds on eliminating noobishness.
I stay away from the free (as in beer) speeches, especially those after which you're likely to wake up the next morning with a headache, stuck with an ugly-ass timeshare you won't be able to get rid of anytime soon.
Just don't send it in to HP for repair, unless you want to risk having them replace it with an inferior part. They pulled that switch on me last summer when I sent in my HP notebook on warranty (sent it back with a crappy low-res screen instead of the original one). 5 months later of dealing with their worthless, lying, evasive case managers, I gave up because it just wasn't worth the utter frustration. In total, on a 14 month old machine, they had it for 6 freaking months.
Attach a pole from one wall to an opposite wall, then attach your tether in the middle. Orient yourself however you want.
Ask someone "you wanna play me?" and then it's game on.
Thanks to Godwin's Law, Nazi Germany never fielded a successful internet discussion board.
I created a temp directory on the root of my group's file server, which so pissed off the server admin that word started to get around about what I'd done (almost as bad as not putting the new cover sheet on a TPS report, I guess). I swear she gave me the evil eye for the next 8 months.
The solution: Massive Offensive Siphoning and Quite Unimaginable Insectacious Technology Oh-my-god-it's-a-giant-mosquito!
I keep casting +5 Funny, but it's not working.
Relax. They have six months to pick up the ball, and even at that who cares?
Perhaps they are rightly spending time on critical issues such as people running live wires into passenger jet fuel tanks, which -- on the face of it -- seems like a really bad idea.
The internet: bringing nuts together.
It's called Banality Bot, and the last sentence of that post is about to get its tubes cleaned.
Tree like, and some of the branches hang down.
About a week after my stereo, amp, sub, and speakers were stolen out of my truck, some guys I knew bought an amp and subs from a guy in a white cargo van just a block away from where my truck had been. Since my insurance covered everything, I decided it'd be less grief for me just to ignore it. But damn, I sure wanted to turn those pricks in.
I hate to be a grammar cop, but unless you are regarding the members of a group individually, then the collective is singular, not plural. What the headline implies is that Blue Origin is a group of independently acting people, some of whom have released their own flight videos. I doubt that's the case.
Who really cares?
Did humans kill off the aquatic dinosaurs, or was it the, uh... er, flood?
Hosers.
Why am I not surprised to him on this list? =)
Not to help them out, but next time they need to leave the main text visible in the subliminal images.