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Quote by: Dr. Pundit You are suggesting that giraffes, lemurs, and earthworms, all of which have functioning brains, are humans; indeed, this is not true because they are, by definition, a distinct species from humans. |
I am stupefied at how silly people have become in trying to pretend to have a rational argument. In order for a giraffe to be considered a living giraffe it must have a functioning brain. Same goes for lemurs, and what little brains earthworms posses. You see if their brains do not function they are dead. Now perhaps this was not clear to you but I was in no way implying that a brain in a human could be a giraffe or a lemur or even a worm’s brain. Perhaps you should have your own brain checked. It would explain a great deal.
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Furthermore, those people whose brains are not properly functioning, such as most patients in mental asylums, are, by your words, not humans. Surely, they are humans. Therefore, your argument that humans are things with functioning brains is inherently flawed. Life begins at conception; abortion is murder and is thus wrong.
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I am talking about the loss of a level of functioning where the person would be declared dead. This happens all the time. They make this declaration when the person who died has allowed their organs to be harvested. No one would say that human life was not present just that there was no human being present.
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