re: #692 NukeAtomrod

Biology tells us that an unborn child is alive and human. There is no scientific test for “person-hood.” But being alive and human are very strong qualifications in my book. I think the burden is upon you to explain why a living human organism is not a person.

Answer that and stay fashionable, Mr. Clever-Trousers. Oh and the opinion of the US Supreme Court doesn’t count. The Supreme Court’s role is to interpret law, not define reality. No government body has the right to legislate which humans are and are not persons.

re: #692 NukeAtomrod

Biology tells us that an unborn child is alive and human. There is no scientific test for “person-hood.” But being alive and human are very strong qualifications in my book. I think the burden is upon you to explain why a living human organism is not a person.

Answer that and stay fashionable, Mr. Clever-Trousers. Oh and the opinion of the US Supreme Court doesn’t count. The Supreme Court’s role is to interpret law, not define reality. No government body has the right to legislate which humans are and are not persons.

Allow me to quote post # 689 to you:

How absurd and nonsensical does one have to be to equate something that lacks and has always lacked conscious self-awareness, responsiveness, desire, will, communication, reciprocal interactions, human relationships, and any personal history whatsoever with a living, breathing, willing, desiring, reciprocally interacting, self-consciously aware adult human person with a personal history and social relationships, or one who has had these capacities and could resume them? How can one possibly justify calling it a person? Quite simply, one cannot, in any rational and reasonable sense. The very notion is beyond ridiculous, it is ludicrous. And that is why the US Supreme Court has found it to be so.

And notice that such a definition includes blacks and women and gays and any other oppressed or formerly oppressed group you might illegitimately endeavor to piggyback on. You cannot chalk up the very real and genuine essential differences I enumerated to the simple bigotry that has occasioned past discrimination against authentic human persons. It ain’t prejudice when the facts of the matter have been comprehensively considered and fairly judged - and they have been.