Question_Assumptions said (in #25), "At no point in a person's lifecycle, from the moment they cease being a part of their respective parents and start being a distinct individual . . ."
That statement is incoherent because there is no point in a person's lifespan when he is a part of his parents. Parts are not wholes. Persons are wholes. Therefore parts are not persons.
- A8
I agree that it is incoherent. One has to take liberties with ambiguity to make it coherent.
However, the life cycle is continuous from parents through children. People do not POOF into existence as so many pro-lifers passionately claim.