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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (20633)	6/23/2005 1:49:26 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 28931

it's a human being

To: epicure who wrote (20633)	6/23/2005 2:16:40 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

"Is a fertilized egg a person?" It is most certainly a new Human Being that is biologically and genetically distinct from the mother. Many of the definitions of "person" that I have seen, have varied widely. Most of them if applied consistently, would eliminate someone who obviously is a person and appear to be entirely subjective and arbitrary. It seems to me that as a materialist, you would look for a material and scientific answer to that question, rather than an subjective, emotional one. In that case, the argument that all Human Beings are Persons by nature seems pretty strong.