What is pathetic is your usage of the logic of a 4 year old. Sperm is not human. A "4 cell cluster" is not a dog, it will never develop into a dog.
I realize that you hold the uncivilized opinion that in order to be considered human, one must be born. Keep in mind though that no amount of 4 year old logic spewed from your asscrack will cause me to have that same uncivilized opinion. Why don't you change your handle to something more representative of your sensibilities: Instead of 0roo0roo, how about 0mengele0mengele?
that must be some smart 4 year old then. atleast smarter then you with your rather pathetic attempt at a play on words. what isn't human about sperm? you don't say. it is because you don't bother to think. sure, a 4 cell cluster is not a dog. and a 4 cell cluster is not a baby. it requires quite a bit of help to develop into anything at all, it takes a series of processes to change it into baby, else you could toss a 4 celled cluster into some potting soil and wait 9 months. going back on the continuous process a few moments and its sperm and egg which also require much assitance, and yet you don't consider those human. rather arbitrary line you draw at which building blocks are "human" and which are disposable. it sounds like an arguement of convenience and comfort more then anything else.
Classic!
Yes, I am no vegan. You are correct, I don't see a cow or pig's life as sacred. Not all "life" is sacred to me. My concern lies with the respect given to humanity. Deny that slippery slopes exist all you want, but as soon as you start defining when someone does not have the right to live simply because of their level of development someone else will try to change that definition. Hell, you liberal weenies can't even settle on the definition of "imminent"...........
why? with cloning techniques, soon each and every cell of your body could be "imminent" as potential for a cloned baby by your reasoning. as for why you consider human life sacred and animals not, it is arbitrary, and you don't even bother stating a reason why. you don't consider life sacred unless when convenient.
There are grown humans living this very day who do not have the mental capacity that even your dog has. Should we only grant them the rights we've granted to dogs simply because they more closely "resemble" a dog than a human? How do you feel about dropping off a "retard" at the pound to be euthanized because their "owners" simply didn't want to shoulder the burden to properly care for them?
Don't even think about bringing hypocrisy to your argument, unless of course you feel that the mentally handicapped, infants, and the infirm elderly should be treated like animals, or lesser, because they don't "resemble" humans in behavior or intelligence. Or is your only concern for human life simply related to physical appearance? If it "looks" like a human, then and only then does it have the rights the rest of us enjoy.......
And no, there is not a religious bone in my body, thanks for displaying your ignorant assumptions.
its irrelevant. even the mentally deficient do not enslave anothers body for their continued existence. they are independent, if still dependent upon society which we all are to some degree, which is rather different from imposed slavery of another. its telling we don't even force parents to keep retarded children at home if it becomes too much of a burden, society creates institutions to alivate families of a burden they cannot carry. we do not force them to suffer if they cannot, or do not choose to. and thats with independent beings who do not enslave anothers body.
putting dogs to sleep is an unfortunate byproduct of people who do not believe in planning the reproductive options of their pets. planned parent hood perhaps. in a perfect world no dog would have to be put to sleep, but in a supposedly pro life nation, majorities aren't willing to pay for the housing of excess animals, and don't consider them worthy of better treatment then euthenasia. the reasoning is based on species bias, and not on reason or mental capacity. either way, its convenience.
but either way, a dog doesn't latch onto your body and enslave you for its physical existence. a dog isn't a 4 celled cluster. and based on its mental capacity and independence, it shouldn't be killed. just as with other higher level animals. you say you believe life is sacred, but you are no vegan. you draw your little line in the sand based on nothing more then species. a catagory. catagories you find so dangerous. apparently its not ok to catagorize a cluster of cells as something other then human, yet ok to catagorize everything else.
and i didn't say you were religious, simply that you were arbitrary in drawing lines in the sand where something is human. that your reasoning more resembles superstition then reason.