Oh... (insert shocked, amused, laughing smily here).
So you are saying a sperm is not alive?
According to merring it only does m r i , movement, respiration and irritability. So no, not alive, although, it is living.
Because we don\'t want people to do it to us?
Thats the main one for me.
Actually I think the issue might be between the definitions of \'alive\' and \'sentient\'. There is a big difference in my mind...and presumably in the mind of most vegetarians
Actually plants are very sentinent. Plants have an amazing capacity to sense their environment, they also feel \"pain\" its just they do it in in a way different to animals. For example, I study single celled plants that migrate below the sediment surface minutes before the tide comes in and back to the surface when it goes out. If you consider that tides vary, being approx an hour later each day and vary with the phase of the moon, the fact that they shift their migration pattern appropriately is pretty damn impressive, especially for a single cell!
Vegetarians are far more cruel than carnivores, at least carnivores generally kill their food before eating it. Vegetarians torture their food to death by starving it in a dark cold fridge, they also eat embryo\'s all the time.
