+143 Answer me this: if unborn babies are aren't actually alive, then they're dead. And something that's dead can't become alive and live for 50+ years, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Something that's alive can sustain itself.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So, you're saying that you, while you were in the womb, you were dead, and then miraculously over came death?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, I'm saying that I was a part of my mother's body until I was able to breathe on my own.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

tumors are alive

by Anonymous 13 years ago

being dead and not being alive are two completely different things. like a rock. is it dead? no, it was never alive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

A rock can never be alive

by Anonymous 13 years ago

exactly

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"Something that's dead can't become alive and live for 50+ years" ...tell that to zombies.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They're undead, silly.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Haha.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ummm, I'm pretty sure it would be almost completely decomposed after say, 5 years, at best. Depending on the environment

by Anonymous 13 years ago

not with the t-virus swimming around in it - that shit keeps things active forever!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Answer me this, since a piece of plastic isn't alive it must be dead?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Anyone who says that an unborn baby isn't alive is an idiot. And this is coming from someone who is pro choice.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yes, i think the pro-choice camp (of which i am also a member) would claim that while being "alive" it is not yet 'sentient' or 'fully formed' or something...am I just hashing everything up? I guess it's the difference between technically living and being conscious or whatever. Like when a person gets whacked on the head and is "alive" but a total vegetable - see south park episode with the golden psp.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

that's because unborn babies are alive. they have their own dna, their own heartbeat...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

that's because unborn babies are alive. they have their own dna, their own heartbeat...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you can't sustain yourself without other people until you're an adult... so only adults are alive?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sustaining life independently and living life independently are two completely different things.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I do don't know.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

ok so tapeworms are alive, but they can not sustain themselves outside a host body. your logic is wrong.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Just because something isn't alive, doesn't make it dead. A soccer ball isn't either, it's just there.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Dammit. Other people already used that.. But I'm first to say soccer ball..

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What the hell does a chair not being alive or dead have to do with it being attached to someone's body?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I had a chair welded to me as a child... thanks for making me feel bad

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Okay, Dear Person Who Made This Post, You are simply forgetting one word *yet*. The baby in the womb is not alive YET. It's not really dead, next time you want to make a post, get your facts straight.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

this sounds like a gross oversimplification to me

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm not sure that was their point...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

although it is rather convenient at some times

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'd like to respectfully disagree. I'm not trying to say you're wrong, just that I have a different opinion, which would be that babies aren't really alive until they develop a nervous system.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

... are you stupid? Youre probably some ignorant middle schooler who thinks they know everything. If you think that an unborn baby is not alive and is dead, then you're retarded.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It has to be alive to die so no it's neither it's unborn

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you leave a (born) baby alone and don't help it, it won't sustain its life. How is that completely different?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

because as soon as you cut an unborn baby off from it's mother, it will pretty much instantly die. It can still be alive, however, when it is born. but yeah if you don'd feed it after a while it will die.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

not necessarily, only assuming you don't nurture the unborn baby by other means, which we're capable of doing. I still don't see what the big difference is...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Even the second sentence is wrong. It *is* possible for someone to be medically dead (for their heart to stop beating) and then come alive and live for 50 years. I actually know someone who has been dead (after being born) and then came back to life. While he is 38 years off from being 50 years old, he is perfectly healthy, and I see no reason for him to die before then.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah my dad died twice in the ambulance after having a serious stroke, but he's alive now, the stroke was 12 years ago

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You guys completely missed the point of this post. I was trying to prove that unborn babies ARE alive. I was NOT trying to prove that a rock, chair, or soccer ball was alive. Or dead. Or wherever you guys took it. Sorry for not being specific.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You said: If unborn babies aren't alive, they are dead. (not an exact quote.) Everyone else just extrapolated and assumed that your statement "If X isn't alive, it is dead" applied for all X. Otherwise, your statement doesn't work. It doesn't. If it did, a rock, chair, or soccer ball would be alive. Or dead. That is how that happened, so your post is, honestly, just wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I read the post totally differently - as if it were a thinly veiled critique of abortions because unborn babies are very much alive so therefore abortions are tantamount to taking an innocent life, or something. That's how I interpreted the tone.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Some pro-choice people will say that it's fine to have an abortion because it's not really alive until it's born. OP is challenging that, but it doesn't work out for the OP.

by Anonymous 11 years ago