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

To: TimF who wrote (81189)	6/26/2009 5:35:21 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"Potential sentience is not sentience, that doesn't imply that being a member of a sentient species and having the potential for sentience is insufficient to be considered to have natural rights." Well, it goes back to my hypothetical to you about an Alien Being (not Human Being) with sentience. Does sentience give him/her "natural rights". What about the zygote of an Alien Being which has potential sentience. Does her zygote have "natural rights"?? Hopefully, you have a "yes" or a "no" to this query that would then make your subsequent elucidation unequivocal. And I guess what I am hoping is that your answer will somehow help me to understand exactly what you mean when you put "natural rights" into your sentence.