Derail: Pro-life religious debate

[nanashi]

@Eliza Thomason

Just wanted to point out that not having a set numbering of kiddos under a month MIGHT have had nothing to do with seeing them as people. It could have been that they weren't numbered because of a VERY HIGH infant mortality rate meaning a lot of the under a month kids might have been unlikely to live. Numbering them would have then produced an unreliable headcount (when several died while the count was being reported).

[Socionics Is A Cult]

Just wanted to point out that not having a set numbering of kiddos under a month MIGHT have had nothing to do with seeing them as people. It could have been that they weren't numbered because of a VERY HIGH infant mortality rate meaning a lot of the under a month kids might have been unlikely to live. Numbering them would have then produced an unreliable headcount (when several died while the count was being reported).

That doesn't explain why females were considered less valuable than males, and why killing fetuses resulted in no religiously mandated punishment while the death after that would have resulting in the "murderer" losing their own life. Saying "there is a high chance they might have died anyway" is not a very good argument, especially when you live in a society which believes that God knows the future. It also doesn't explain the instances where "God" kills fetuses when targeting the "sin" of a third party it doesn't like.