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

To: one_less who wrote (20644)	6/23/2005 6:26:42 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 28931

"Is a genius more of a person than someone with an IQ of 80?" Yes, if we appreciate and nurture those talents. Just think what the world would be like today without the high IQ of Attila the Hun, Hitler and Stalin.

To: one_less who wrote (20644)	6/27/2005 1:54:05 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Then we are pointed at another line, being how much of a brain or nervous system qualifies one for the personhood club. That is not what I said. I was talking about the extreme distinction of either/or. You do not have to be a Rhodes Scholar or know how to build a cabinet to experience human existence. But if you are brain dead or have no brain...then what are you experiencing? Where there is some brain function, it is a question for the people involved and the State--isn't it?