[Servant of the Cross]

Soooooooooooooooo .... in your demented mind ... Ellen ... anyone who is ‘mute’, for whatever reason, is not human?!

[Morgana]

Can't talk but has more brains than Ellen could ever imagine.

[OneWingedShark]

Soooooooooooooooo .... in your demented mind ... Ellen ... anyone who is ‘mute’, for whatever reason, is not human?!

Apparently so — this does bring up the interesting issue of how easy it would be to strip someone of personhood simply by removing their tongue.
Too bad the Nazis didn't know this, they could have claimed that they hadn't exterminated 6 million persons if only they had the wisdom and knowledge to first remove the tongue, and therefore their personhood, before the execution! If only they'd had the wisdom of this woman to guide them they would not be so ill-regarded by history.
[/sarc]

(Objective complete: Godwin's Law.)

[babygene]

“Soooooooooooooooo .... in your demented mind ... Ellen ... anyone who is ‘mute’, for whatever reason, is not human?!”

Or what about if your asleep?