United States should downsize the population by ending all immigration and creating incentives for having fewer kids.

[sundin13]

NightlyPoe said:

sundin13 said:

Hm, interesting. I disagree, but interesting.

What quality do you think provides this small bundle of unspecialized cells a right to life,

The quality that it is a human life.  I see no reason to discriminate and take away the basic right to life based on a person's state of development.

or alternately what harm would be done were it to lose such a right?

The being has lost his or her life.  That is more than sufficient to be worth protecting.

How exactly is "human life" defined? And why should this "human life" inherently be protected?

In this vein, do you consider it abhorrent when the plug is pulled on someone who is brain-dead and on life support?