"Human" vs "person" is nothing more than a simple process of
classification. There's nothing inherently prejudicial about it.
All snails are mollusks but all mollusks are not snails. A
snail-shell is "of-snail", but a "snail-person" is more than just
a shell. All humans are mammals, but all mammals are not human. A
human-fetus is "of-human", but a "human-person" is more than just
a fetus. These divisions are logical and impart no more
discrimination than they deserve.
-Mark
PS: Thanks for writing clearer.
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I object to seperate the interelationship between the two
synonyms
as it allows the perpetuation of dehumization used by opressers
for
centuries to remove the rights of human beings by decreeing them
something less than the whole that they are.
I understand your construction of what a Person is in your view,
but
it is nothing more than a construction and very much abstract. It
is
an idea, and it is an idea that strips rights from inividuals
both
born and unborn.
I would define a person as the singular form of people, and
sepcificly as the whole of a human entity. To claim only a person
has rights, and that a human is not always a person and that
personhood is given to them by a definition created by anouther
is
to make a mokery of the idea of rights. Rights are not given, the
are inate, ineliable you could say. Privledges are those things
that
are given. To claim an unborn child is human, but not a person
and
thus not granted said rights is to claim that life and libertey
are
not rights but rather privledges of the state and then Terry,
then
you will finaly see that philosophical failure you talk about.
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