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- From: bil@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Bill Conner)
- Subject: Definitions?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:30:20 GMT
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- At some time, some one's going to have to define what is the most
- fundamental element of human-ness is. What is it that determines what
- we will become? How are we basically different from non-human things?
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- It would seem that we are best and most completely described by our
- DNA but possibly by our chromasomes. At what ever point the newly
- conceived being possesses the full cpmplement of chromasomes, that
- being is human. This seems much simpler than any other standard and
- neatly avoids the moral questions. How about some facts and figures on
- this ...
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- Bill
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