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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Do you hold the same views with regards to embryos or foetuses?
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Why is it that birth is the critical juncture in terms of when an entity becomes a person?
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Okay, my question wasn't very clear - what is the moral significance of an entity being a separate embodied individual compared with its being non-separate (from its mother, I presume)? These questions are of practical significance because they relate to 'life or death' decisions about embryos...
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    More questions! :)
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    How important a consideration do you think autonomy is or ought to be in decisions about how we should treat an entity with the potential to become a human being/a human being?
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Okay, let me try to put it differently. What's your opinion on abortion and late termination of pregnancy?
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    So one reason to ponder infanticide is in its relation to abortion and late termination of pregnancy. Ultimately, the key question is: at what point does an entity (with the potential to become a person) become a person, and why? And following on from that, what are the implications for our...
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    What's wrong with incest?

    I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're getting at.
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    Hmm, so you don't have a citation you can point to. I can just as easily give you counter-examples of Protestants I have known who are quite happy with evolution, and it then becomes your experience and word against mine.
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    I live in Britain, and have lived in areas with large Muslim populations, and I don't recognise the picture you paint above.
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    So, yes, wrt both 1 and 2, this relates to the bigger question of whether it is better to exist or not. One could argue that if one doesn't exist, there is no suffering, and since existence involves (sometimes great) suffering, it is better not to exist. This is the question you pose, right...
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    And why is that morally significant?
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    If you look past the headlines, you'll see that the greatest support is only for certain aspects of Sharia - typically relating to family law - rather than the whole shebang - there is markedly less support for the criminal punishments mandated by Sharia, for example. And a typical view is that...
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    What's wrong with incest?

    You haven't answered my question.
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    What's wrong with incest?

    You said: I give you one thing, one problem in this type of relation can separate families by ongoing feud and enmity The same can be said of non-incestuous sexual relations/marriage.
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    At what point in one's development does one gain autonomy, and why, in your opinion?
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    What makes it horrific, though?
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    At what point does an entity become a citizen/person within a jurisdiction? As an embryo? A foetus? At the point it becomes viable outside the womb? Upon birth?
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    That doesn't really address my question.
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Why the emphasis on a 'unit unto itself'? What do you mean by this exactly?
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