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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
Anyone wo believes in reincarnation should say "yes". More generally anyone believes in dualism should say yes. If you believe in heaven you should also. I don't understand why that isn't clear.
because it's not?
consider your terms (self/soul/consciousness), how those disparate groups think about these terms, and the assumptions you're making asserting they should all say yes to your odd hypothetical
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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
Because if God can put a particular "soul" inside of any fetus, it's no big deal if one is discarded before it even knew it exists.
"God said unto Moses, 'I put souls into any fetus. If you discard it before it knoweths its own existence, NBD.'"
Exodus 3:12
christians generally believe life starts (or "god puts a particular soul inside of a fetus") at conception. at that point it's a big deal to them if god's will is discarded, regardless of whether the embryo knows it exists.
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But if every precise sperm egg combination is correlated with a specific human consciousness than such a destruction of that impending consciousness is almost homicide.
but if any sperm/egg combo results in the
same human consciousness (whatever that means), then destroying
that impending consciousness is a different story, resulting in pro-choicers taking the opposite moral position? why?
you're trying to play logical gotcha using highly subjective terms, making weird assumptions about other peoples' beliefs, and introducing sperm/egg combo counterfactuals that none of those belief systems would ever care to contemplate.