When presented with this meme, just extend the logic: "You're just a clump of cells too, just bigger."It depends on how the cells are organized into tissues and organs.
“It depends on how the cells are organized into tissues and organs.”
No, it doesn’t depend on how the cells are organized. These “clumps of cells” and even single fertilized egg cells fit all of the scientific parameters required to classify something as alive.
If these cells are not alive, and they certainly are not dead, what are they?
Even single-celled organisms, such as bacteria, are alive, and they never organize into tissues and organisms. How can one argue that bacteria are alive, but human embryonic cells are not.
Some are trying to classify these cells as something other than living to suit their own social agendas.