Lagboltz, I asked you back in post 40: How do you feel about the fact that science has presented beyond rational conjecture that at least one person, at least one unique individual human being, begins to live at the moment of conception?
You've yet to tell me how you feel about the truth of it. Please do.
I'm confused by your phrase "only in the sense", as that appears to be similar in function to the word "but" which is, in this context, a refutation of the clause that precedes it.
Indeed, when you go on to say "potentiality" of human life, you have indeed contradicted your previous clause that "a human being" begins to live at the moment of conception, as a human being is not a "potential" human being, a human being is simply a human being, actual and kinetic. If a human being exists, there is logically no potential for that human being to be a human being because that person already is. The word "potential" logically does not apply.
I'm also intrigued by your appeal to the USSC rather than science in this matter.
USSC justices aren't scientists. Nor was their 1973 decision based on the later-revealed DNA and life science fact that a person, a unique individual human being, begins to live at the moment of conception.
Yet you like to side with the USSC 1973 decision rather than present-day revealed scientific fact of the matter.
Why is it that you appeal to the USSC of 1973 rather than to present-day science?
Does appealing to the USSC benefit you in some way that appealing to science would not?
If so, what is the way that it benefits you?
Yes, yes, you can stick to your story all you want, but the truth of the matter remains that you entered this thread not to refute the form of my presentation but with the foundational intent to thereby refute its substantive meaning. Your divertive digressive allusions only substantiate that reality.
Yes, I just re-read it -- it was indeed quite the dodge ... which your "potential" disclaimer above confirms.
I do wish you'd get to the heart of the matter as to why you don't agree that a person, a unique individual human being begins to live that person's life at the moment of conception.
Your "potential" dodge is a lousy smokescreen.
