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

To: Solon who wrote (81673)	12/30/2009 7:01:57 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Respond to of 82486

DNA might be the main physical distinction that makes it human rather than some other life, but it isn't just DNA. It is something that contains DNA, and it wouldn't be a human if it was just DNA, any more than you would be a human if you where just a leg or a lung. DNA is part of a human, even a simple undeveloped one at its earliest points, but it isn't a human. What (other than DNA) makes a single egg cell human rather than just "life"? Your logic is messed up. The distinction from other things is not the same as the whole of the thing. Nothing other than the red paint that's on it, makes a red car in to "a red car", rather than just "a car", but that doesn't mean that red paint is a red car.