This should be the definitive standard of what defines a human being...it's simple and foolproof, which is more than can be said for the Alabama Supreme Court
The idea that an insensate blob of parasitic protoplasm with no more agency than a hair follicle is a baby is as stupid as one can get. Since something in the neighborhood of 50% of all such blobs never implant in the placenta, does that mean we start arresting every woman who takes a pee? ('cause that's where that 50% go.)
The story is told of Diogenes (who deliberately lived in a barrel, often wandered the streets of Athens naked, and publicly masturbated), in response to the philosophers definition of a human being as a "featherless biped", would go through the streets with a plucked chicken shouting, "Behold! A man!"
The idea that an insensate blob of parasitic protoplasm with no more agency than a hair follicle is a baby is as stupid as one can get. Since something in the neighborhood of 50% of all such blobs never implant in the placenta, does that mean we start arresting every woman who takes a pee? ('cause that's where that 50% go.)
The story is told of Diogenes (who deliberately lived in a barrel, often wandered the streets of Athens naked, and publicly masturbated), in response to the philosophers definition of a human being as a "featherless biped", would go through the streets with a plucked chicken shouting, "Behold! A man!"
Yeah, but could the chicken shoot a free throw??