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To: Hank Kerchief
Nice try at obfuscation, Hank. I aked you to clarify your definitions because you have acknowledge in the past that you do not value the embryonic age of the lifetime to be that of an individual human being. Care to take it from there?
53 posted on 09/22/2003 7:08:40 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN
Nice try at obfuscation, Hank. I aked you to clarify your definitions because you have acknowledge in the past that you do not value the embryonic age of the lifetime to be that of an individual human being. Care to take it from there?

What would I be trying to obfuscate? Nothing can be truly understood without understanding the context of whatever is being examined. Nothing exists in a vacuum. There is always a context. To ignore contexts is obfuscation.

Philosophy defines a human as "rational animal" to differentiate humans from all other animals. In that context, any creature that is not capable of being rational, potentially or actually, is not human.

Biology defines humans in terms of the genetic nature of the species. Anything that bears the genetic nature of a human is human.

I did not invent any of this. Those are the definitions. How is that obfuscation?

What is it you believe is true that you believe I disagree with? Please describe this within a specific context and indicate what that context is. You may be right, for all I know. I really do not know what it is you are getting at. I have certainly made mistakes, especially in the way I have expressed my views in the past, and would not be surprised to discover I have done it again. So far, you have not shown me where that mistake is, but I'm willing to be shown, if you choose to show me.

Hank

56 posted on 09/22/2003 8:42:24 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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