Reply #26: Its not a question of life, but of identity

[Az]

A simple questions shows the difference. Which would you rather have preserved? A sample of your skins cells (life) or your mind (identity)?

Life seems to be necessary for a mind to arise but that does not mean that where there is life there is a mind. It takes very specific structures to give rise to a mind. And those structures simply do not exist for the first two trimesters of fetal development.

Yes, it destroys life. But so to does scratching your arm. You kill human skin cells when you scratch your arm. And if life is all that matters then you have murdered yourself on a regular basis.

Its the mind that matters. Not life.