[Libertarian] Re: Does ALL 'human' life also have 'personhood'

Sat, 20 May 2006 10:34:18 -0700

Tom, in prior posts you said 'zygotes' are 'human beings' and
that's 'biology 101' which reasonably implies a broad bio-science
consensus about the reality described by your statement.  

NOTHING that you submitted as generally respected (meaning that it's
not a propaganda site) supportive citation contained a phrase posted
to this forum such as 'zygotes are human beings'  You did submit a
reference to www.L4L.org (Libertarians For Life) which is hardly a
credible citation to substantiate your claim as being
basic 'biology101'  If there were any phrases, in the text book(s)
you cited, along the lines of 'zygotes are human beings' you did not
quote them here; or, if you did, it was missed by my half blind
eyes. 

You did NOT say 'a zygote is a zygote' you repeatedly said 'a zygote
is a human being as anyone knows from Biology 101' unless I severely
misread your posts (always a possibility)


-Terry Liberty Parker
PERSONHOOD: Abortion & beyond
at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/message/48351 



--- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Terry,
>
> > Tom, it is you who drove the standard of proof to which you're
now
> > objecting by claiming that the use of the term 'human being' to
also
> > describe a 'zygote' comes from a broad bio-science consensus.
>
> I made no such claim. The fact that a human being is a human being
is
> no more something that would be subject to a "bio-science consensus"
> than is the fact that a molecule of water is composed of two
hydrogen
> atoms and an oxygen atom.
>
> > 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.
>
> I complied with the request _before_ you made it with a citation
from
> an embryology textbook.
>
> Then I complied with the request _when_ you made it with multiple
> concise citations from lay references.
>
> The "tactic" involved is in rejecting the former because it's not
the
> latter, then rejecting the latter because it's not the former.
>
> Tom Knapp
>






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