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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: one_less who wrote (78624)11/5/2003 11:37:13 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
The problem here is that by Karen's definition an entity becomes qualified as a human by a legal status of citizenship

I didn't say that. I wasn't addressing the state of being human at all. I was talking about the law. Murder is a legal term.



To: one_less who wrote (78624)11/7/2003 11:46:06 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
The worst mass slaughters in the modern age have been committed by bureaucrats operating under the criteria of their own legal definitions. It takes a lot more faith to believe that humankind will ever work out their differences than it does to believe in God.