>... The fact that some individuals don't have legs > , i.e. not bipedal, doesn't make them non-humans for moral or legal > purposes.
having two legs is what makes us human? remember, we also lack feathers. > The fact that some individuals don't have functioning gonads etc. > doesn't become a basis for discarding the biological definition of sex > or render it an invalid biological concept. there's nothing wrong with a biological conception of sex. But defining sex totally in terms of reproduction seems off. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
