Definition of Life

[Apoi_Viitor]

When does a fetus or infant become alive? What traits must it have and why?

[Luís Henrique]

When does a fetus or infant become alive? What traits must it have and why?

It is always alive.

What you want to ask, perhaps, is a very different thing: when does it aquire rights within our society?

To that, the answer is, when law says so. And when should law bestow rights upon fetuses? At birth - any other option results in legal conundrums that either demoralise law or impose oppressive burdens onto actual members of society.

And this is not a philosophical discussion.

Luís Henrique

[Rafiq]

It could be interpreted in different ways, however universal ethics don't exist so it depends on the time.

[pastradamus]

It must exist in any stage detectable by humanity.