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To: eastsider
There is no further deconstruction necessary of living human being than there is of living human person.

We agree that a zygote is alive. So the question is, is it a human person? And you answer depends upon how you define "human person". If you define it by DNA, then your answer will be yes. If you define it by brainwave activity, then your answer will be no. You cannot avoid the necessity of defining your terms.

576 posted on 03/04/2005 11:10:55 AM PST by malakhi
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To: malakhi
Further deconstruction of 'living human being' is a devolution into "neverending" sophistry. Post #342 illustrates the point quite well:
But how do you define a "living human being"? Your definition is so broad ...
The second sentence exposes the sophistry of asking for further definition by tacitly assuming that the phrase 'living human being' is, in fact self-defining!
586 posted on 03/04/2005 11:30:17 AM PST by eastsider
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