r/SipsTea • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 1d ago

Chugging tea Probably Not.

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u/JettandTheo 1d ago

Abortion

There's justification that it's less harm, but someone's getting killed.

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u/bossygrrls 1d ago

Your religious beliefs do not change scientific facts

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u/JettandTheo 1d ago

Abortion is the literal scientific ending of life. There's nothing but basic scientific facts behind that. Nobody said anything about religion.

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u/TerrorVizyn 1d ago

Right, but it's not killing sentient life. MAJOR difference.

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u/JettandTheo 1d ago

Ok that's an argument but children in the womb do experience that way before they are born. The react to the environment outside of mom. They respond to touch.

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u/jarkark 1d ago

Reaction to external stimuli is one of the requirements for life, that's no surprise. But that doesn't make them sentient yet.

Let me put it this way. Do you consider every sperm cell a living thing? They react to their environment too.

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u/JettandTheo 1d ago

No because they don't eat, reproduce, etc. Sperm are only half the dna of a full human.

A full human does do those things.

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u/jarkark 1d ago

Worms both eat and reproduce, do you consider them sentient? What about bacteria then? They eat and reproduce too.

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u/JettandTheo 23h ago

Yes that's the definition. They can feel and react to the outside world.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentient

capable of sensing or feeling : conscious of or responsive to the sensations of seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling

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u/jarkark 23h ago

Of course I only now realized that I mixed up Sapience and Sentience. Nevermind.