Not to me. The taboo only seems reasonable to me when it is about a human person eating a human person. Since zygotes are not human persons, it is not of the same moral significance as cannibalism.Well then... if a human eats a human, it's canabilaism.
The moral significance of a human organism is when it becomes something at least more sentient than a tadpole. But, you're right, it is a human life, in the sense that it carries human genes. But, there is absolutely no reason to care about that, relative to actual human persons.A zygote is an early stage of a human life. Its still a human life
I asked a vegan friend about swallowing after blow jobs once and he couldn't come up with a good answer. :lol:
If you swallowed a fertilized egg, would that mean you'd eaten an entire human being, just like if you chopped a 30-year-old up and ate him?
I think that's the question at issue here.
We all commit "cannibalism" to one extent or another every day; we swallow skin cells from the insides of our cheeks, we clear our sinuses by sucking snot down the backs of our throats, we chew skin off our lips and swallow it, we chew our cuticles.
If "eating part of a person" is cannibalism, we're no doubt all guilty of it on a daily basis.
I think the question is, is swallowing a fertilized egg- which would be no different in my opinion, really, than swallowing a load of semen, except in one case you're eating millions of human organisms and in the other case you're only eating one- the equivalent of eating an entire person?
You know, it's not at all uncommon that an egg is fertilized but fails to implant; in this case, it is eventually ejected from the body via the vagina.
Anyone who performs oral sex on a woman could very well have swallowed a fertilized egg and not even realized it.
It's microscopic, after all.
Think of all millions of dead sperm dieing a horrible death after being swallowed. Slowly dissolving in acid the pain they must feel
Think of all millions of dead sperm dieing a horrible death after being swallowed. Slowly dissolving in acid the pain they must feel
I understand where this thread is coming from, but...it's purely...distasteful (excuse the pun).
For some reason I cant get the words "fried" and "fetus" out of my head.
Seems to me that all human life holds exceptional value, even those that we consider lesser than ourselves.The moral significance of a human organism is when it becomes something at least more sentient than a tadpole. But, you're right, it is a human life, in the sense that it carries human genes. But, there is absolutely no reason to care about that, relative to actual human persons.
Could you please explain the "exceptional value"?Seems to me that all human life holds exceptional value, even those that we consider lesser than ourselves.
As opposed to, say, frogs.Could you please explain the "exceptional value"?
That you judge these people to be without value is telling.Make a trip down to the local shooting gallery, or skid row. Look hard for value. It's there somewhere.
Telling what? Am I simply a snob because I work for a living? I'm not talking about the homeless. I feel for those folks.As opposed to, say, frogs.
The amphibians, not the French.
That you judge these people to be without value is telling.
Are you saying that these people are somehow less 'exceptional'?Telling what? Am I simply a snob because I work for a living? I'm not talking about the homeless. I feel for those folks.
How about most of the cons in the state penitentiaries? The ones that commit a crime after being released just to get back into the only life that they can handle?