Why don't you respond to me, but go and whine about how bad I am to your supporters instead?
Thank you for the advertising, but I think it's kinda childish. You might have at least said "sorry" for attacking me.
OK, I tell you about my views on all this "sacred life" thing) I don't entirely agree with the ideology you mentioned. It has its logic, but for me things are slightly different.
a) Any living organism, including a human being, is a machine. A very sophisticated one, indeed, but a machine nonetheless. If a human mind will create an intelligent artificial lifeform (bodyless AI, robot, whatever), it would be an equal person. There is no reason for a carbon lifeform, a carbon machine to declare its superiority above other machines.
b) If we define "sacred" as “worthy of religious worship”, “holy”, “related to religion”, meaning that life is sort of supernatural, was created by god and all the stuff like this, then no, life is not sacred. It appeared because of abiogenesis and took its current form through 4 milliards of years of biological evolution. You better don’t argue that. I can assure you that I have all the necessary evidence. I have a deep interest in biology. You can find how I disputed about GMO in the comments section below one of my journals for example.
BUT. According to scientific information we have nowadays, life seems to be a rare phenomenon. It wouldn’t be too wrong to assume that intelligent life is even more rare. That is what makes it precious! Its ability to think, to reflect, to process abstract ideas combined with its fewness, with the amount of time it takes for it to evolve and all the obstacles preventing it from doing so. Universe is a dangerous place. It is not very suitable for life. Actually, it tends to kill it )
c) I fully agree with the statement that an intelligent lifeform should evolve, should strive to make itself better. I am a transhumanist, if you haven’t noticed yet. I don’t believe in any god that religions created by ancient men offer me. I have no reason to be sure that the universe was created and that it has some purpose. But I have a dream, an idealistic thought that an intelligent lifeform can evolve into a godlike being. Maybe there are such beings out there. Who knows? But they are definitely not the gods men made up stories about. It seems that they’ve never visited our place X)
d) Oh, and I have a different view on violence. It would be too long to explain.I raised this topic in that pro-GMO conversation though.
I wanted to make my own stamp on this theme, but then economic crisis occurred and I thought that it would be too costly to prolong my premium membership. It is not that useful to spend so much money on it. So I let it stay as it is.