Random though on abort

The ethical question on abort can be compared to a heads up Texas Hold 'Em poker game. When you are small blind, or big blind and the other player has raised, you are considering wether you should call or fold. The flop about to come that could make your hand good or bad, can be thought of as both existing and non existing. It doesn't really exist because no one has seen it and the cards are random, so the potential hand you could get doesn't exist before the flop is shown, therefore you do not lose that potential hand if you fold, as it doesn't exist yet.

The same way when a baby is growing inside a belly it is only a potential person. It is only a certain set of genes and a biological animal, there is yet no soul. In my head what makes a person into the person he or she is, is the things that happen around and to him or her, and not the genes which merely is how a person is biologically build. So in that way a baby inside a belly does not exist before it is born.

So in the same way as the poker hand before the flop, one does not lose anything by giving it up.

Not that I have anything to write about..

..but I have nothing else to do while waiting for Cashback, the short movie, to load at video.google.com. Saw the full movie a while ago and loved it. Anyway, I haven't done that much this weekend. Mostly watched series, as I haven't had that much time to watch them during the week so had a lot to catch up on.

Next week will have a lot going on. I have guard (right word? thing where I have to stay barracks to be ready if a fire starts) tuesday, some drill wednesday that takes all day, some smoke diving drill as far as I know, and then I have guard again next weekend, so have to stay there the whole weekend :I Good thing is I might get around to start reading one the books I bought then.

Weekends are too short aren't they? :) Oh how I look forward to the end of this month when I start having every friday off, and will have so the rest of the time in the civil defence.