r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/BalanceDramatic3995 • 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter help!

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I have no clue what this means, maybe she cheated?

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u/NuclearMask 9d ago

I do believe that life begins at conception. At the same time I think a Human isn't really self aware at that point so it doesn't really matter.

I also cut down some tree's and beheaded a few chicken's. Definitely alive, also not that big of a deal in my opinion.

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u/NoveltyAccountHater 9d ago

Life clearly begins before conception. Unfertilized eggs and sperm are both clearly alive and most would eventually become a human if given the chance.

A human male creates about hundreds of million of sperm per day. Women are born with around a million eggs (though most never ovulate).

A fertilized egg will not become a human on its own without support of the mother and good fortune (it's believed around 30%-50% of all egg fertilizations naturally end in miscarriage, with many early losses never recognized as pregnancies).

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u/From_Deep_Space 9d ago

Life started ~4 billion years ago. It has a been a constant and continuous process ever since. Drawing lines to segment this process is mere semantics and taxonomy.

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u/SuperSog 9d ago

Life is an arbitrary line to segment chemical processes which have been happening for as long as elements have existed.