The Fourth Dimensional Prerogative

I have given this much thought. I am not certain this argument over
when life begins is really about when people think life begins or when
they hope it begins. I am inclined to believe that there is a
fundamental truism when regarding life; when left alone, once it
begins, it will continue until it cannot continue. When we ask when
life begins we let it reside as a single point in time. But life is
not three dimensional. It is four dimensional. Life encompasses a
finite span of time that can be abbreviated or extended. Does anyone
really believe that the timeline starts any time after conception?
And so, how much of this argument is really about when is it okay to
take a life.

Pete

The Fourth Dimensional Prerogative

Life is not three dimensional. Life is not a single point in time.
Life is a journey through time; however long or however brief. Life
is the prerogative to travel through your own timeline, to participate
fully in your own lifeline. Life is a fourth dimensional
prerogative. The ultimate fourth dimensional prerogative if you
please. At least for short-lived, thinking, breathing folk. Well,
short-lived breathing folk, parse the thinking.

To question where life begins is just rhetoric to satiate the psyche.
The spark of life is spontaneously created when two halves become
whole and a supremely unique individual cell is formed. Life begins
when, left to its own natural devices, it will continue on down the
lifeline spontaneously created at conception to become what it intends
to become.

Everyone knows this, at some level, despite superfluous debate. To
accept such only makes the matter less palatable to 'enlightened'
individuals and extremely unpalatable to the unenlightened folk.

Life, if you must break it down, has a natural potentiality. Life has
the natural potential to travel along a complete lifeline when absent
the forces with designs and devices to cut that line short.

Contrarily, life is not the unnatural potential to continue along a
lifeline absent the forces with designs and devices to prolong that
line. It very well will terminate, absent intervention, even then.
Another matter.

Life will follow the lifeline until such time it ends. Unless someone
or something acts to ensure premature death...or unless someone acts to
preserve and protect life, it will continue on until the determined
end. Both the former and later are unnatural.

A human being, of the conscious sort, would very much like to create
an obligation of sorts that by every means necessary must be applied
to ensure the continuity of their own lifeline. A human being, of the
conscious sort, would very much like to restrict the ability others to
sever their lifeline. Restrict even the ability of a human being to
sever a lifeline of their own.

However, a human being, of the conscious sort, would very much like
the ability to sever a lifeline at will. The timing and reasons for
doing so are extraneous.

Let us put away the rhetoric and delve deeply into the heart of the
matter. A human being, of the conscious sort, wants the right to
selectively sever the viable lifeline of another living being because
they want to...kill.

There is no need for sugarcoating. We have enough gumdrop politics.
All it really lacks is an honest admission that this is the desire;
the occasion to terminate life. Again, reasons are extraneous and
cloud the issue.

Very well.

No one on earth can truly be the judge or jury on this one. Maybe
human beings, the conscious sort, should pause, take some time to
become 'unenlightened'; and think.

J Peter Finch

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle;
you can live as if everything is a miracle."

Albert Einstein
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