[Alex Murphy]

Someone please tell me how a potential human in early development, not yet manifested in this world is more important than a human being, with a history, a family, a promising future who is killed in war.

So are you pro-life, or pro-potential-life?

[muawiyah]

Your question is irrelevant.

If we were to use some sort of scale of "relative importance" as a way of deciding who it was OK to kill, we could really dig ourselves a deep hole in the cosmos Fur Shur.

An egg that I had fertilized is, for example, infinitely more important to me than you are (for example).

Obviously we need to have some different standard than simple "importance".