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» 12/08/2008 4:44:39 PM 1. Whether the author intends this or no, this article shows up the woolly thinking that p.....
» 13/12/2006 9:42:09 PM Yabby, it seems we’ve come full circle, so it’s time for me to leave. Embryos are individ.....
» 12/12/2006 11:12:48 PM Yabby, The case of people who die and then are frozen is irrelevant. I’m saying that if a.....
» 11/12/2006 11:28:24 PM Yabby, “Clearly a frozen corpse is not living.” Naturally! But my contention is that a f.....
» 10/12/2006 7:10:22 PM Yabby, ‘You have still to point out as to who should decide as to whom should be declared.....
» 10/12/2006 6:52:49 PM Yabby, Whilst you’re right to beware of semantic confusions, I don’t think it applies in .....
» 9/12/2006 10:03:45 AM 4. Even humans without functioning brains have this capacity. So, a zygote is a human bein.....
» 9/12/2006 9:57:09 AM Yabby and Fester, Here is the position I have been defending. 1. A single-celled concep.....
» 6/12/2006 11:25:35 PM [Note that, as the crow/congenital deformed wing example shows, innate defects which impai.....
» 6/12/2006 10:40:50 PM Fester, There are innate capacities: capacities that are with us when we are born – or, .....
» 29/11/2006 10:12:36 PM Fester, I’m confused: I thought we’d covered the innate thing already. viz; One could hav.....
» 29/11/2006 9:10:13 PM Yabby, My apologies. The reason I didn’t answer you question is because I didn’t understa.....
» 28/11/2006 10:26:55 AM Could I offer my take on chimeras? Clearly “human life” as such began with the early sepa.....
» 28/11/2006 8:30:13 AM Yabby: (re. your penultimate post) I think I’ve now identified your “line” in the sand. .....
» 26/11/2006 11:01:48 PM Fester, Human gametes are not human beings. (Another example; your liver is human but not.....
» 26/11/2006 10:27:55 PM Fester, The logic of your first para. is “X doesn’t own a car. Therefore X doesn’t own a .....
» 23/11/2006 11:31:29 PM Fester, my point is not that Rex the person first existed at conception. It’s that Rex the.....
» 23/11/2006 10:54:37 PM Fester, Having the capacity to do something by no means necessarily implies the ability to.....
» 22/11/2006 10:07:27 PM Re. the discussion with Cris. This is now a very similar discussion to the one we’re havin.....
» 22/11/2006 8:46:48 PM Fester, It’s not the fact that they could be repaired that gives impaired humans their d.....
» 21/11/2006 6:48:00 AM Yabby, I appreciate that in the back and forth we can lose sight of the original questio.....
» 20/11/2006 9:13:27 PM Thanks Yabby. You make a fair comment – we can always be more constructive with our lives.....
» 19/11/2006 11:13:14 PM Fester, Anencephalic babies and zygotes and pre-brain embryos are in essentially the same.....
» 19/11/2006 8:56:39 PM Yabby, Ever heard the expression “with child”? Also 4th definition at dictionary.com : “a.....
» 18/11/2006 10:24:08 PM Yabby, I wouldn’t lean too heavily on dictionary definitions of ‘person’: on their score a.....
» 18/11/2006 9:12:06 AM RTRL First, I agree that we are ignorant of much to do with the brain, especially at the .....
» 17/11/2006 10:08:01 PM Yabby, I – along with many others, follow the Thomistic interpretation of Boethius’ class.....
» 17/11/2006 8:02:43 AM Fester, good question. I assume we’re talking here about the severest form of anencephali.....
» 16/11/2006 9:27:57 PM Yabby, The standard definition of person is: a rational being. (Boethius: “An individual.....
» 16/11/2006 7:56:06 AM Fester – thanks for the question. The short answer is yes. Longer answer: the embryo, I.....
» 15/11/2006 8:06:18 PM Yabby, 1. In an earlier post you referred to “unaware” bunches of cells as if this lack of.....
» 14/11/2006 9:27:44 PM Thanks, Yabby. 1. I’ve raised questions earlier re. your personhood line and am yet to re.....
» 14/11/2006 6:02:42 PM 1. Fester, what happened to Dolly the sheep was that a nucleus from a mammary gland cell w.....
» 13/11/2006 5:48:12 PM Yabby, 1. If there is no objective morality, then why are you putting up an argument, for.....
» 13/11/2006 10:04:57 AM Yabby, The "functioning brain = person" equation isn't quite enough: one has to.....
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