Quote Originally Posted by meatwad
This might kinda freak/creep you out, so be warned...

According to my scientific learning, viruses are nto alive because they are (1) incapable of independant reproduction and (2) incapable of life without directly feeding off of a living being's metabolic processes. This definition also includes highly evolved parasites, such as tapeworms, etc. Because gross parasites (meaning large, not grotesque) are completely dependant uopn another living organism for their metabolic and reproductive processes to operate, they are not technically alive.
Then this post confirms my guesses, at least for now. This will also permit the harvesting of fetus and many aplications on medical science. Why not clonation? I'm all for pro-evolution, of course while the fetus don't present any human factions. Then the fetus is only considered alive, or like an human being when it's out of the belly, when it's born, that's interesting.