I do say that the chemical process of cell division doesn't make you a person (and isn't what makes you a person), yes.
If I name my big toe, does that make it a person? It's alive, after all. No, I don't care about that. I'm not saying that I have some solid grip on exactly when a person becomes a person, but I'm completely certain that it's not at conception. You can name a fertilized egg anything you want. That makes no difference to me.
So we impart certain chemical processes with moral value based on attributes that don't apply at the level of cell division. That's what.
It is not always a person. That is ridiculous.
No it isn't. It's not arbitrary to say that people (at least generally) deserve to live.
Person and human being are pretty much synonymous, to me. Yeah, you're right, there is no consciousness, hell no nervous system. But it is still a person, it is just a person at an earlier stage of development.
That's how I feel too.
To you. And so what if it doesn't? You're the one hung up on definitions, not me.
To anyone thinking clearly.
Well if it doesn't, then that's not a great reason to condemn people who get an abortion, now is it?
I don't know, is it? Who ever said that they condemned people who get abortions? Or that your specific definition of personhood factored into that?
It carries moral weight without being bound to specifics that should only define characteristics of a person.