Does anyone here have qualms about the moral status of the embryos that are discarded in this process? I’m aware of the OP’s views on the issue, and I recently addressed them elsewhere, but I’m curious about the average viewer of this page.
Emphatically no. They are primarily potential lives, but they need their mother’s womb to achieve that potential, and they can’t all have that. Those simple brains have no more inherent moral worth than an insect with a similar number of neurons. Only one life can come out of this process. Whether that one is chosen by chance or choice, the one resulting life has the same moral worth.
The statement that they are potential lives is incorrect. An embryo is already alive and, since it has continuity through time with an adult human being (obviously actual living human), it has human identity as well. Therefore, it is a living human being.
“Only one life can come out of this process” is also incorrect. This is like having 4 teenagers and choosing 3 of them to be shot, and then concluding that “only one adult can come out of this process, therefore the 3 teenagers are merely potential lives and can be destroyed”.
Why would inherent moral worth depend on the number of neurons or complexity of the brain?
My God… The discarded embryos are human beings with all the associated moral worth. The procedure described in the post does not eliminate diseases or increase the iq of a child. It merely kills the humans who are more likely to develop a disease or those who are likely to have lower iq.
Does anyone here have qualms about the moral status of the embryos that are discarded in this process? I’m aware of the OP’s views on the issue, and I recently addressed them elsewhere, but I’m curious about the average viewer of this page.
Emphatically no. They are primarily potential lives, but they need their mother’s womb to achieve that potential, and they can’t all have that. Those simple brains have no more inherent moral worth than an insect with a similar number of neurons. Only one life can come out of this process. Whether that one is chosen by chance or choice, the one resulting life has the same moral worth.
The statement that they are potential lives is incorrect. An embryo is already alive and, since it has continuity through time with an adult human being (obviously actual living human), it has human identity as well. Therefore, it is a living human being.
“Only one life can come out of this process” is also incorrect. This is like having 4 teenagers and choosing 3 of them to be shot, and then concluding that “only one adult can come out of this process, therefore the 3 teenagers are merely potential lives and can be destroyed”.
Why would inherent moral worth depend on the number of neurons or complexity of the brain?
My God… The discarded embryos are human beings with all the associated moral worth. The procedure described in the post does not eliminate diseases or increase the iq of a child. It merely kills the humans who are more likely to develop a disease or those who are likely to have lower iq.
This is evil.