Would you peel the skin off of a newborn baby?

what is interesting is that from the perspective of religion there is some moral or ethical consideration - IOW it is a given that god is the most moral being (as even any atheist will be quick to point out, an immoral god can be rejected)

in science however, anything goes (IOW science has no inherent ethics - so look out world)

 

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Reality doesn't either, so..

 

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Perhaps in time clones will be created and will be afforded no human rights and then be used. That, (the idea), is a long discussion in itself though.

For now no - although I confess the question is hard to answer. A 'discovery' is usually discovered when you try something out. Thus unless you already knew that chopping up a child would lead to a great discovery there seems little point in trying it. If you did somehow know that chopping up one child would lead to this great discovery, it wouldn't really be much of a discovery but then I would contend that yes, someone ultimately would chop up a child. In such an instance however it would be probable that a specific child would be used to try and minimize suffering - a mentally retarded child in a coma with an unoperable brain tumour for example.

Personally I would rather be the contributer to such a great discovery than live, (if you can call it that), with a condition lovingly given to me by god.

 

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I still couldn't do it. Even if my own children were with me.
I could kill and eat that baby's Mom, but not the baby.

 

Hmm killing and eating a baby isn't quite the same thing as peeling off the skin of a live baby..

 

Thus effectively killing the baby in the process lol

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That's just sick!

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But seriously I wouldn't. Several reasons, namely that if you leave the child alive you'd have to look after it, if you leave the woman alive she'd have to look after you

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That's true. I can't think of any viable reason to peel the skin off much more than various fruit and veg. I would do it if there was some inescapable reason to which works the same with baby eating.

 

Well, yeah.. if it was an inescapable reason.. lol

 

reality according to science, yes

 

Fine.. objective reality then, not subjective..

 

I take it you mean the version of it popular in science (yet again)

 

I wouldn't know, I think the term 'objective reality' speaks for itself really..

 

your argument is seamlessly circular

 

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M*W: Technically, anyone who has ever murdered a baby or child has essentially peeled the decomposing skin off that child.

 

Why isn't this in the cesspool?

If this question was made about Moslems, it would be gone in a heart beat, so would a Moslem Peel the skin off a New Born Baby if Allah appeared to them and told them to do so?

 

So, you deny objective reality ?

 

I choose:

Scientist - I would NOT peel the skin off of a baby.

I have to admit I was really on the fence about it when it wasn't my baby.

 

Do they need a formal invitation in the religion subforum?

 

Thank you John.

 

Of course it would, because then it would be targeting in a discriminatory manner one single religion, instead of the general concept of religion.

Can you not tell the difference?