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£e0N GöngßangeR 1mo ago 💬 5

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1mo ago

I don't think a pregnant bacteria on Mars is 2 lives any more than I think a pregnant human on Earth is 2 lives

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Enchiridion 1mo ago

To be fantastically pedantic and slightly off-topic, I respectfully disagree. Only around 43% of the cells in a human body are genetically human. That’s 40 trillion or so non-human lives to 30 trillion human cells. We are proverbially legion. None of which has any bearing on the ethical point you were correctly making.

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1mo ago

Oh yeah, I forgot I'm just a bunch of mitochondria and stuff

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Enchiridion 1mo ago

I wasn’t referring to organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts which have lost the ability to survive outside the cell. I was referring to the bacteria and fungi that live in the gut and on the skin, not to count nematode worms and mites etc. Good point though.

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privatize_universe 1mo ago

It's not about life. It's about if we consider it human. We also have cancer, which are also human cells. Is cancer alive? Yes. It is human? No.

Is embrio alive? Yes. Is it human? That is question.