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Old 06-29-2017, 05:14 PM   #15
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Default Re: Horror Scenario: Babies without souls

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Originally Posted by Anders View Post
What if they had no soul? What effects do you think this would have on them, apart from "non-viable" (which is boring). This naturally assumes that there are such things as souls and that they perform some function.
Obviously, that depends on what function souls perform. Unless the effects are either very subtle or very slow (15+ years), a big result is that IVF is never approved for general medical use (looks like the FDA moved IVF equipment from 'premarket' to 'special controls' in 1998) and the number of IVF babies remains quite small.

Well, unless children born by IVF are clearly better than other children. But that's its own rather special variety of horror.
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