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Do you believe?
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At some point, when it is developed enough to survive outside the womb, it can be considered a person seperate from it's mother. A zygote is not a person. And a bunch of ??? in between.
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That´s merely a semantics question.
I don´t know how to determine at which point something becomes a person or ceases to be a person.
I don´t the concept "person" is not sufficiently precisely defined for determining that.
I think that "person" is used in completely different meanings,depending on the context.
I think the purpose of this category is not to draw precise lines.
There seems to be a desire to conceptualize continuous processes as being a sequence of clearly distinguishable states.
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Eudaimonist
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I think that it is life at conception.
A person? That I don't know.
I find it hard to believe that 2-4 cells is "a person".
If we were able to clone a person, would the clone be a person the moment that the cells were extracted from my body?
What is difficult is to say that there is a day when the fetus goes from tissue to person. It's hard to define.
It's also hard to define if a soul is trapped in a body after the person is clearly brain dead, and kept alive only by artificial means.
A person? That I don't know.
I find it hard to believe that 2-4 cells is "a person".
If we were able to clone a person, would the clone be a person the moment that the cells were extracted from my body?
What is difficult is to say that there is a day when the fetus goes from tissue to person. It's hard to define.
It's also hard to define if a soul is trapped in a body after the person is clearly brain dead, and kept alive only by artificial means.
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PassionFruit
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I would say that I believe an unborn becomes a person depending on how far along its brain is developed. I would not consider a zygote a person, it only has the potential to become a person.
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A fertilised egg is a non-person. A baby that has just been born is a person. Anybody who claims there is some easily and objectively determined point in between the two where there is a sudden step-change from "nonperson" to "person" is deluded. Apart from anything else, it rests on the nontrivial task of determining what qualities make any born human being a "person" (regardless of their physical or mental wellbeing) whilst excluding other animals from personhood.
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