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Emotions and feelings are often how people express their moral standing. The majority of people won't be able to break down those emotions and feelings into a coherent argument, but at the end of the day I still hold that on such issues involving human life, emotions and feelings which lead to...

Science hasn't and most likely never will reach the point where you can point at something and say alive/dead, human/bunch of cells. Science develops and evolves as our understanding improves and changes. I really like the example of a person's heart not beating. As the knowledge improved so did...

There is no exact scientific answer. We can point to various stages of development and death, but defining human life at one of those points is a moral question. Hundreds of years ago, if your heart stopped, you were dead. Now we know that is not the case. In a few hundred years being brain dead...

I disagree with this. While you may discard feelings, these very feelings give people a sense of right and wrong and inform the discussion. In the end feelings inform the scope of the discussion. Yes these feelings lead to divergent views, none of them are less valid than any other since that...

The head cut off and the body surriving is a legitimate question. This is a really disturbing video showing that it is possible to keep a dog's head alive and active separated from it's body. It was done in Russia in the 1940s. WARNING, this video is on YouTube, but I would rate it M++ because...

I have to say the edge cases are the most important. In the future as technology improves having that clear line will be important. I also think that if you try to make a law/rule without taking into account the edge cases, then it is a poor law/rule. Because at the end of the day even if...

This is why The Sietch is amazing. People can actually have this type of conversation and discussion without flying off the rails. +1 to everyone. I will say this discussion has been enlightening for me. For me conception always seemed a bit too early as a dividing line. A mass of cells is not...