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<blockquote data-quote="HaniE" data-source="post: 3272940" data-attributes="member: 154693">but that&#039;s a biological given, surely; I mean it&#039;s expected, and it&#039;s there. of course things can go wrong, but we generally expect things to work out most of the time.I agree on there being no clear cut answers in moral terms or perhaps if you&#039;re looking for an objective dividing line that dictates when &#039;potential&#039; turns into &quot;life&quot; there&#039;s no clear cut answer everyone might agree to. I just don&#039;t personally place much value on the relevance of that.However we can each only give our view, and from where I sit I think it&#039;s &quot;just a matter of time&quot;, hence the diminishment of it&#039;s relevance. For me personally if I had this decision to make it is not a convincing enough basis to have some sort of cut off point or argue about when &#039;potential&#039; becomes an accepted definition of &quot;life&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HaniE, post: 3272940, member: 154693"] but that's a biological given, surely; I mean it's expected, and it's there. of course things can go wrong, but we generally expect things to work out most of the time. I agree on there being no clear cut answers in moral terms or perhaps if you're looking for an objective dividing line that dictates when 'potential' turns into "life" there's no clear cut answer everyone might agree to. I just don't personally place much value on the relevance of that. However we can each only give our view, and from where I sit I think it's "just a matter of time", hence the diminishment of it's relevance. For me personally if I had this decision to make it is not a convincing enough basis to have some sort of cut off point or argue about when 'potential' becomes an accepted definition of "life". [/QUOTE]

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