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[–] 1 point 6 hours ago (2 children)

Not separate, but it is a living thing. If you starved your hand off by constricting the blood flow, I don't think anyone would question you when you say your hand is dead.

Actually isn't that literally called dying off in English?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    I think we're using 2 different meanings of "dead" here. There's "dead" as in "dead tissue" and "dead" as in "corpse". My point was that a fetus fits the first meaning of "dead", but not the second. You can't "kill" a fetus.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    I don't really think we are. A corpse is also just dead tissue after all. I don't think there's a significant difference in semantics here.

    At the end of the day I don't think we should be debating the meaning of the words, just what we think they represent.

    The main difference (to me) is when it's a separate living being. I would definitely call a just-conceived foetus "alive", but it's not an individual yet, and I would have no issue with aborting it.

    Also I do want to make clear I'm very pro-abortion. I'm just autistic and get triggered by "misinformation" (this isn't misinformation but again my autistic ass can't think of the proper term).

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