Controversial Topic Discussion

The "potential of life" is certainly not a religious argument, I was referring what was said earlier: something about how it is wrong to create human beings the unnatural way, because then the created babies wouldnt have souls or such. I dont see any reason why it's immoral to create life artificially unless you believe that god might get pissed.


As for the potential of life argument, it is a terrible argument rationally. Why is it that we should grant all potentials of human life a chance? Who is suffering if we dont? Certainly not the "potential". On top of that, we are also forgetting that we actively deny potentials of life. Whenever a woman fight back a rapist, she is trying to fight a potential of life. Whenever a man masturbates without a woman, he is taking away the potential of each of the sperm to meet an egg and develop into a human life.

Another thing is that we our ability of genetic engineering, each of our cells, whether it's skin cell, bone cell, muscle cells, they all have the potential of becoming a life if it's manipulated correctly in the lab. So whenever you scratch your nose, you have just committed a holocaust.

And for all these reasons, I strongly believe it's intellectually bankrupted to not support stem-cell research on the basis that it's "destroying a potential of human life"