2007-01-19 08:43:58 · 11 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have to get it approved by the State legislature every time I get a trim. When I clean out my shower, I have to send it to be cremated and properly disposed of.
2007-01-19 08:49:15 · answer #1 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well hair does have as potetnial to become a life as a stem cell taken from an embryo. The stem-cell critics say that that embryo could have gone on to be a human if you just let nature take its course, where as a hair (without the intervention of man) will never become another human if you just let nature take its process.
2007-01-19 16:57:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The cells in the eyelash will not, if left alone, become a human being.
The cells of a blastula/foetus, left alone, will either naturally miscarry or grow into a fully featured human being.
Thus the eyelash cells have no moral human potential, whereas the blastula/foetus does.
However, if the cells were nurtured into a state that would, if then left alone, form a blastula then a human being, yes, that would require the moral protections afforded all other humans.
2007-01-19 16:50:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can hair be used to clone? Only the root (bulb) has nuclear DNA. Now saliva, that I'm protecting.
2007-01-19 16:53:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is protected, not the "possibility" of it. Human embryo's are "living beings" which matures, killing the embryo kills the human. A strand of hair, or it's DNA will not by itself grow to be a human being.
2007-01-19 16:53:02 · answer #5 · answered by ἡ ἐκλογὴ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the fundie issue seems to be that they believe stem cells are human beings, not that you can clone from them. Yes, we understand that this is ridiculous, but lets at least understand their issue.
2007-01-19 16:49:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That only happens at Jurassic Park
2007-01-19 16:47:46 · answer #7 · answered by one10soldier 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because it's not a baby until the conception takes place.
2007-01-19 16:59:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To borrow from Sam Harris, every time we scratch our nose, we commit a genocide potentially.
2007-01-19 16:46:52 · answer #9 · answered by Laptop Jesus 2.0 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the whole thing is crazy...i havent heard this but we need to stay out of Gods territory or we are opening a can of worms.
2007-01-19 16:48:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋