>>403440
>What's the difference in practice?
Variability of responses based on factors other than genetic mutation, primarily due to previous experience within one life, rather than the ancestral memory of instinct. That brings one at least up to the level of an animal. I'm not sure if I'm eloquent enough define what makes humans higher thinking creatures than animals though.
>Except I never said nor implied that.
>>403370
>How does telling people to not have sex if they don't want a kid "imposing" something on anyone?
In a discussion about banning contraceptives, you argue in favor of telling people to simply not have sex instead. This at least implication, if not endorsement. You make these arguments repeatedly, but this is the first example and I see no point in making an exhaustive list.
>Yes, before an egg is fertilized
That is not a part of the development of a fetus. That precedes it's development. But I get your point. You outright reject that consciousness might not yet exist, even in a single celled zygote that has yet to develop a braincell, which is obviously ludicrous and means your definition of consciousness is so wide as to be meaningless, and may as well include the sperm and egg as well, as they are also single celled organisms. What the hell are you defining as consciousness at that point?
>So it's pointless to make theft an crime because "someone" is always desperate for cash and there's nothing you can do to prevent people from thieving in the first place. Therefore shoplifting should be made legal. It's literally the same argument. You're arguing that because you have desperate idiots who are going to do something stupid because they're idiots, there's never any reason to outlaw it in the first place.
You're, that was a bad argument. Mitigation through threat of legal action should be the point of such law, as law is not a perfect solution to any problem, but still necessary.
>In the example of Maslow's pyramid, sex for procreation is a physiological need just like food, meanwhile sex for entertainment is on the third-level.
So people should have kids before they have personal security, employment, resources, health, and property? Before they have love?
>Yes they do for the purposes of "continuing the species".
He already brought this up. Did you not read what you replied to?
>>403440
>Sperm actually doesn't come from the testicles.
Of course it doesn't. That's where pee is stored.