To: eastsider
But that isn't the arugement.. although I did state it wrong because of course it's always human.. but a living functioning on it's own human being is totally different.
To: Almondjoy
I'm not really sure what the argument is, but if it's that being a living human being is based on dependence, then anyone undergoing an operation who's hooked up to a heart-lung machine and the like is already dead.
To: Almondjoy
but a living functioning on it's own human being is totally different.A person living in an iron lung, or with some other form of respirator is not "functioning on it's own", as is true of someone in a coma. I presume that they are 'different' too? How about mental defectives -- they do not truly function on their own. Neither do newborn infants. I mention all of these groups because various governments have approved killing all of them, at one time or another. Just wondering who is on your 'hit list'.
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