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To: TampaDude
...you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.

No. I don't know what the hell you're talking about. You asserted that it is our consciousness and self-awareness that make us human--those are your words.

What are we before we are conscious? before we are self-aware?

What about the brain-damaged individual who may achieve physical consciousness but never attains a sense of self? Are they ever human? It seems to me that your criteria for what makes us humans is incredibly vague. Maybe that's just something we'll never agree on, because I abhor vague.

881 posted on 04/19/2007 5:34:10 AM PDT by grellis (Femininist)
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To: grellis
Yes, he is vague. What is viable and who determines the definition?

The criteria for what determines “value” among the human species has changed throughout history, depending upon who is in charge. Slavery is an example, once perfectly legal in this country and throughout the world. Also, every atrocity that was perpetrated by the Nazi’s was done legally through their court system. As other posters have pointed out, genocide's have occurred throughout history and the world, each group believing it “justifiable”.

From a philosophical and moral standpoint, either all human life has value, even in the womb, or no human life has value, but is dependent on “circumstance”.

896 posted on 04/19/2007 9:19:39 AM PDT by khnyny
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