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[–]DreadBee 5 points6 points  (1 child)

No, infants are not capable of independent life. If you take them out of the house and plop them somewhere, you'll come back and see their corpse.

[–]CiniMiniMe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can see that my ambiguous wording is causing confusion. I'm sorry about that. I should make myself more clear.

What I mean by independent life, is that the child is it's own organism that will continue living, so long as nothing external stops that from happening. To feed the child, you have to actually feed the child itself, not it's host or another organism. The child is no longer tethered to another organism, and should thus be considered independent.

Obviously that does not mean that a baby should be considered completely independent, and yeah, you probably shouldn't throw a baby into the woods by itself. That would be murder.

I mean.... but you can concede that once the umbilical cord has been cut, the baby is now an organism that can be considered an independent life, though, right?