Continuing from my previous post about Sam Harris' book Letter to a Christian Nation and branching off with a different line of thoughts.
Okay, so Mr. Harris says that any cell in your body has the potential of becoming a human and that when you scratch your nose, you have "committed a holocaust of potential human beings." Well, I say that there is a major difference between the cells that make up your body and a human blastocyst. First of all, a normal body cell must be tampered with before it actually has the potential to become a human. A cell on you nose will just sit there until you scratch it off or it dies or whatever. A blastocyst on the other hand will grow on it's own and, unless something goes wrong, it will become a human being. It doesn't need any help, other than what it naturally receives from it's mother. This is the way God designed humans. It's natural. It's normal. It will happen with being tampered with. Therefore, a human blastocyst has so much more potential of becoming a living being than a cell on your nose for instance.
Also, Mr. Harris address the fact that there are more cells in a fly's brain than there are in a human blastocyst and that therefore, we should be more concerned with killing a fly than a blastocyst. Well, I say that since a blastocyst has the potential of becoming a living, breathing human being, it should be valued so much more than a fly. Living, breathing human being have souls, flies do not. If a blastocyst is going to become a human, it is going to have a soul. Whether is has a soul already, I don't know (only God really does know) but what I know is that is will have a soul. To kill it is destroying it's chance to have life, not only in this life, but also the next life. After a fly dies, it does not achieve eternal life (either in heaven of hell) so why would anyone care whether they killed it or not? A blastocyst will have a soul, therefore, it should be allowed the chance to live.
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