--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome back.
Thank you. > I think you're missing Charlie's point. > To me, his argument is that it is VERY hard to draw a clear > line between things that can turn into adult humans and things > that can't. I advise conceding the point, unless you just > like to argue for the fun of it. : ) I saw that Charlie responded "precisely" to this. *But*.... I can't recall a single example from Charlie of something that might be able to turn into an adult human or might not, but that it was just too hard to tell. Maybe I am missing something... > May I propose that you reply: "Anything produced by combining > a human egg and sperm certainly counts as HUMAN. Other things > might also; we'll decide about clones later." How about - any individual organism whose adult stage is an adult human is a human? > (Must--not--argue--with--John... Why not? I don't bite, do I? ;-) > No, it's no use, I > can't help but gang up on you: Personally, I think > you ARE a long ways down a slippery slope to "every > sperm is sacred". Sorry.) How terribly disappointing. How anyone could consider a half-cell to be human is beyond me. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
