[hocndoc]

I will still assume that you are a person.

You would have missed the discussion about what it is to be human if you have not read the entire thread.

However, by your eagerness to understand, your conviction that there can be understanding even if you haven't experienced it, you demonstrate that very quality or power that makes humans unique in our world.

[beavus]

I will still assume that you are a person. You would have missed the discussion about what it is to be human if you have not read the entire thread. However, by your eagerness to understand, your conviction that there can be understanding even if you haven't experienced it, you demonstrate that very quality or power that makes humans unique in our world.

I'm not arguing that you are giving examples of human qualities. To clarify, what I'm after is to complete the following:

"Rights" are [BLANK]. The necessary and sufficient properties (possessed, for example, by humans) that give rise to rights are [BLANK], and those qualities lead to rights because [BLANK].