With this argument you aren't a person when you are sleeping or in a coma or catatonic state because you have near 0 high brain function and just have pure animal instincts.
Sadly I have heard this argument before and many people believe that certain disabilities disqualify you as a person.
57 posted on 07/29/2009 2:57:04 PM PDT by LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")