This post is not super well-articulated and I'm having a hard time explaining what I mean here, but I'd like to post this anyway.

So, the other day, I saw this post. And when I read it, it really struck me. The kinds of arguments it was making about it "just being tissue" and "they come from the same embryonic structures anyway".

It seemed like such an example of stuff I'd seen before, but here it seemed so obvious.

It's just a clump of cells

It takes the magic out of it somehow when you explain these beautiful phenomena through science

It's just a piece of paper

There's no such thing as the white race because there are different white ethnicities

Animals just act on instinct, they're just dumb animals reacting to stimuli

It's like, you take the things apart into constituent pieces and forget about the whole, somehow. Or use it as a way to argue that the whole isn't there, or draw attention away from the importance of the relationship to the living whole.

I think this is used in arguments and propaganda and undermining things that are actually precious and important and real, sometimes.