objecting by claiming that the use of the term 'human being' to also
describe a 'zygote' comes from a broad bio-science consensus.
Also, I don't see how using the term 'tactic' to describe an honest
request by me for you to reasonably substantiate your claim is
helpful to genuine communication. It's the same kind of request I
make of pro abortion rights advocates (for example, when I challenge
a pro abortion rights advocate claiming that the term 'human life'
can not refer to zygots according to broad bio-science consensus).
The answer you came back with did NOT explicitly, concisely support
your claim. If the bio-science consensus is as universal as you
stated, there should have been plenty of readily verifiable,
generally universally respectable URL citations available to
explicitly and concisely support your claim. The need for such a
demanding standard of substantiation is due to both the importance of
the claim and the extreme level of contention it understandably faces
in this context. If there isn't such substantiation then the bio-
science broad consensus you claimed for use of the term 'human being'
to also describe 'zygotes' has not been credibly presented here.
This isn't a matter of using a 'tactic' of rejecting everything
because it doesn't 'suit [just] me' as what's been submitted so far
should not 'suit you' either, imo.
-Terry Liberty Parker
LIMITED vs UNIVERSAL Libertarianism
at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/message/48288
--- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Terry,
>
> > In the references you quoted, I did not see the word zygote
equated
> > to the term 'human being'
>
> Interesting tactic: Reject explicit cites because they aren't
> concise/readily available enough to suit you, and reject
> concise/readily available cites because they aren't explicit enough
to
> suit you.
>
> > I don't see that extending the term 'human being' to include a
zygote
> > is either justified or helpful to communication
>
> Neither do I. Fortunately, no such "extension" is needed, since the
> term "human being" already does, and always has, included a zygote.
>
> Tom Knapp
>
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