i think this last post is in the wrong direction. biomedical engineering offers the hope of developing compatible organs without having to harvest actual living human souls.

though we still have that nasty misconception that anything in amniotic fluid consummates a human soul. blame that on metaphysics.

and really can it be any worse then when we buy a pair of shoes, knowing full well that the labor that produced them will probably die at half the age and get half as much pay--have half as much life as we measure, have half as much soul and worth? it's all complicated isn't it? do we suffice for the metaphysical ideal, while we allow every other subordination of it to be allowed so long as we can't see it? but those cells could have been human beings. meanwhile i masturbate into a towel and wonder, hey, am i wasting genetic material that could be my daughter or son? but then again it doesn't work that way, or else, we're not quite up to defining it that way.

that's the problem, right? abortion culture, that wants to decide when and where to have children, when we could have so many that the world could sink in the water of oblivion. but that's not the question asked. it's whether they could exist.

at least the economy has some way of determining worth.