Children 0-3 have no memories and aren't even conscious.

Consciousness is not that clearly defined my man. Declarative memories may not form until ~3 years old, but nondeclarative ones definitely are (eg learning to speak and walk and generally learning what being alive is like). There's literally no way to prove anyone or anything has or does not have consciousness.

I do agree with you though, there isn't any significant difference between a fetus about to be born and a baby born minutes ago, and there isn't any single significant step from being a collection of human cells to being a human. So if we're okay for killing embryos and young fetuses it's seems weird to me that we aren't okay with killing babies. I mean it's not that weird but from an abstract, objective, big picture kind of way it is.

>tfw starting to think real life is all just a dream and that there is only me and God and God has cooked up this dream to test me

>>35265600
Read Descartes. He attempted to solve exactly this problem.

>>35265756
What did he come up with?

>>35264786
Women are infantile their whole lives, what's the argument against killing women?

>>35265783
Basically when Descartes lived philosophers couldn't figure out if anything existed at all. Descartes was also afraid that a devil was feeding him illusions. Then he coined "cogito ergo sum", I think therefore I am If nothing else you can prove that your mind exists. And if you can prove that your mind exists you can start proving that other things exist.

>>35264786
??? i have memories from when i was crawling ????