I realize you have your hands full - since you are alone on this thread in your views, but I wondered if you could respond to reply #25 to you, because it was exactly what I wanted to ask you.
To make it easy, this is the question:
Out of curiosity, at what hour of which day does sentience begin? Or are there degrees of sentience? If the latter, then what is the degree which deserves legal protection?
57 posted on 09/29/2002 4:37:41 PM PDT by Shethink13