Six years of war, hundreds of billions of dollars, over four thousand US soldiers' lives, tens of thousands of our soldiers wounded, hundreds of thousands of civilian lives, and we might have an ally in the Middle East. Had we known the cost up front, would we still have gone ahead?
Your definition of human life is supportable if you believe that a human being is a body only. If you believe that we are a soul as well, then human life, that is to say, life on Earth, begins when the soul enters the body. As I said before, no one knows when that happens. No one can, in fact, prove that it does happen.
Ironically, it seems to be the Christians who argue that life begins at conception, rather than the atheists, but still, neither side really knows that they are right. They simply believe themselves to be right.
But we do have taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, and we don't have the same result as prohibition.
Just what do you think would happen should the authoritarian extremists among us manage to outlaw tobacco?
