Is sperm alive?

[kmrivers]

I know they swim, but are they merely pawns in the reproductive process with no feelings of pain or love?

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Since when did single celled organisms feel love?

 

[KLin]

Where do you people come from?

 

[tasmanian]

POLL!

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: KLin
Where do you people come from?

 

[FoBoT]

like others cells, sure

 

[neutralizer]

Depends on your definition of alive, but independent of the body, I'd say no because they have no way of replicating themselves.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: KLin
Where do you people come from?

Sperm?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

They must love to swim

 

[Aikouka]

Sure they do; they play hide the sperm with an egg.

 

[KK]

you wanna feel my sperm?

 

[FoBoT]

:music:

CHILDREN:
Every sperm is useful.
Every sperm is fine.
FUNERAL CORTEGE:
God needs everybody's.
MOURNER #1:
Mine!
MOURNER #2:
And mine!
CORPSE:
And mine!

NUN:
Let the Pagan spill theirs
O'er mountain, hill, and plain.
HOLY STATUES:
God shall strike them down for
Each sperm that's spilt in vain.

EVERYONE:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite iraaaaaate!

:music:

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
Depends on your definition of alive, but independent of the body, I'd say no because they have no way of replicating themselves.

Of course they have a way of replicating themselves. Why do you think they swim upstream? To get to the other side? Sheesh, by that kind of thinking, virii are alive but sperm aren't?

 

[AreaCode707]

No unique set of complete DNA, no life.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: KLin
Where do you people come from?

Sperm?

Uh..oh. Chicken or the Egg debate.

 

[Slackware]

Originally posted by: kmrivers
I know they swim, but are they merely pawns in the reproductive process with no feelings of pain or love?

Yes they are alive, bacteria is alive too, neither can "feel" anything, feeling is a human construct that we apply to both ourselves and animals.

Kinda like an embryo is alive in the sense that it is a collection of growing cells but not more alive than a human that is braindead because it does not yet have a functioning brain.

So basically the answer is yea and no.

 

[IronWing]

People are simply reproductive vectors for sperm. Don't think so? Who outnumbers who?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

<chuckles> Literal Ninnies! I should know to check first to see if there is a sense of humor present beofre making a joke.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: KLin
Where do you people come from?

Stupidville, it's right down the river from New Dumbfuck.

 

[TheSlamma]

Originally posted by: Tick

Originally posted by: KLin
Where do you people come from?

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: SonnyDaze

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: KLin
Where do you people come from?

Sperm?

Uh..oh. Chicken or the Egg debate.

No more debate, the egg came first.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/index.html

 

[FoBoT]

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/homebrewerdude/SpermMan.JPG

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: Slackware

Originally posted by: kmrivers
I know they swim, but are they merely pawns in the reproductive process with no feelings of pain or love?

Yes they are alive, bacteria is alive too, neither can "feel" anything, feeling is a human construct that we apply to both ourselves and animals.

So basically the answer is yea and no.

I revise my answer because I jumped to the pro-life/pro-choice mindset of "personhood" instead of the literal definition of life. I agree with slackware on the portion quoted above.

 

[AbAbber2k]

They're living just like every other cell in your body is "alive". Alive doesn't mean sentient/conscious/etc.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
Depends on your definition of alive, but independent of the body, I'd say no because they have no way of replicating themselves.

O RLY?