True, but I would distinguish the two situations. An uprooted acorn is not an oak tree.
"True, but I would distinguish the two situations. An uprooted acorn is not an oak tree."
My point is: Why would we want to be ahead of China when it comes to EVIL - all evil.
Your statement is not true. An uprooted acorn is an oak tree albeit a small one. A human embryo will grow to a full size baby if left alone inside a human mother. Symantics will not change that fact. Once a females egg has been fertilized by male sperm and starts to grow it is human and will become a fully formed baby if left to grow just as a acorn will grow to a fully formed oak tree if left alone. In their beginning states they are still oak trees and humans with the full DNA map for their developmen embedded inside them.
You asserted, "An uprooted acorn is not an oak tree." You couldn't even frame your deception accurately! 'Uprooted'? Do a little experiemnt for your edification. Find a peanut in the shell. Carefully open the shell and remove the nut. Now, carefull separate the two sides of the nut and look to one end where there is a tiny peanut plant already forming from the very beginning of the 'fruiting' process. Embryo, the entire organism including the placental encapsulation being built for survival, is a human being at the earliest age in the lifetime already begun. The acorn seed is an oak species member, regardless of whether you 'uproot it' or not.