bacteria may, like a fetus, have a heartbeat , but a fetus actually develops into a breathing, talking, living person. There's a HUGE difference between a human and a plant. Humans live, make descisions, interact with others, and do so much more than an actual plant. Plants have their uses a well, but they are in nonways as amazing or complex as a human life. So yes, fetuses and plants have heartbeats , but human lives have so much more value and impact than plant lives.
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Bacteria and plants (as far as i'm aware) don't have hearts. Those are kind of necessary for heartbeats. See the relationship there? Heart is to heartbeat as drum is to drumbeat.
Now i know you are going to say that this elevates the fetus above the others, blah blah blah. But you've already forfeited the argument by being so wrong that nobody takes you seriously
Er. Do they think bacteria are plants...? Without plantlife and bacteria humans couldn't have come into existence. Other lifeforms on earth wouldn't exist either, so... What has more value and impact on the planet, really?
And, seriously, people have no issue with cloroxing the hell out of microorganisms they find on their kitchen counter. Don't really see how an embryo is any different.
How did this person go from bacteria to plants so quickly? I didn't even see the transition between topics.
Here's a top, just as you should never start talking about the Big Bang Theory in the middle of a conversational about evolutionary theory, you also should not start talking about plants in the middle of a conversation about bacteria. When you switch to a topic unrelated to the one you started with, it makes your conversation even more confusing.
Plants aren't complex and amazing? Let's see you manufacture food from sunlight.
Aside from bacteria that can live off chemical or geothermal processes, there is no other form of life that can manufacture their own energy. Without them the vast majority of life on the planet (including humans) would perish.
So yeah, plants are kind of important.
Starting with the most basic fact, in order to HAVE a heartbeat you must HAVE a HEART.
"...human lives have so much more value and impact than plant lives."
But you are evidence to the contrary.
Hold on, we have bacteria in our digestive systems that help us digest our food. Do all these bacteria have heartbeats? Wouldn't they drown out the sound of our own heart?
I recently had dinner with a microbiologist, who told me that humans can be considered basically as walking colonies of micro-organisms.
There's a HUGE difference between a human and a plant.
But not between IlMioLibro and a plant.
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so muchthe wheel, New York, wars and so onwhilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than manfor precisely the same reasons.”
? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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"[H]uman lives have so much more value and impact than plant lives".
Global warming. Your move, idiot.
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