Specifically identical twins that is, to be a picky person. This is of course a reasonable point, but just one limb in a lengthy case analysis by which you can make the whole proposition of any discrete moment for the inception of an individual soul look pretty shakey. (If anyone wants to buy me a(nother) pint while I rubbish (sorry Bryan) dualism, nihilism, determinism, or compatibilism then I'm game, just as long as I don't have to argue _for_ any coherent position on the nature of consciousness...)
Somehow this seems a faintly Dara Happan sort of position to me; all this banging on about the sacredness of Yelm's seed, etc. (Artificially valuable commodity due to unreliability and scarcity of the supply?) Not sure that it'd necessarily affect their cultural position on the morality of pregnancy termination -- who knows.
> 'thirty days after birth' in those cultures that go big for exposing the
> unwanted. (Query: does this ever happen on Glorantha?)
I imagine it's pretty common in places like Prax and Pent.
> Meself I'd say that it isn't necessarily a matter of theological debate,
> given the availability of Soul Sight and similar effects.
Thereby only making it a matter of debate between people with different 'versions' of the Feat, i.e., potentially the distance of a well-chucked rock... Not that I'm saying it's actually likely to be controversial in any given society, anyway, but there's not reason to imagine the situation is cookie-cutter like from one end of the lozenge to t'other.
Cheers,
Alex.
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