[beavus]

1. If the zygote is human and it is life, it is human life.
2. No one can prove that a human spirit does not exist along with a zygote, simply by saying that the cells do not seem to support sentience.
3. As to which zygotes are purposed to live longer, or be duplicated genetically, and which are not, in our natural law theory of law this is not recognized as a decision that man is capable of making, only nature's God.

1. If a MACROPHAGE is human and it is life, it is human life.
2. No one can prove that a human spirit does not exist along with within a PIZZA, simply by saying that the PEPPARONIS do not seem to support sentience.

in our natural law theory of law this is not recognized as a decision that man is capable of making.

Actually, the laws of physics determine what "man is capable of making".

genetically choose what should become life

What does this mean?

[MHGinTN]

1. If a MACROPHAGE is human and it is life, it is human life.
The important point to note is 'individual' human life, as in an individual organism rather than an organ of an individual.

2. No one can prove that a human spirit does not exist along with within a PIZZA, simply by saying that the PEPPARONIS do not seem to support sentience. It was my intention to keep this discussion on the science and scientific definitions/modes of definition (as in form and function determining the age of the individual in existence). I like pepperoni and pizza, but whether such pig has a spirit before becoming pepperoni is irrelevant to this thread. The designation of individual human is the topic at hand.

[unspun]

No one can prove that a human spirit does not exist along with within a PIZZA, simply by saying that the PEPPARONIS do not seem to support sentience.

I can say that. Can't you say that? I can say that.

We have no right to genetically engineer (or cookie-cut) human beings. Neither to discard a fertilized ovum.