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- Subject: Re: Life begins at ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.120202.2174@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 12:02:02 -0500
- References: <93023.075954KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu> <1993Jan24.092455.2849@netcom.com> <nyikos.728071661@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1993Jan27.075023.3495@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan27.075023.3495@netcom.com>, ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
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- > Anyone who asserts that genes make each person unique is operating in
- > a state of extreme ignorance and/or naivite. To claim that anyone is
- > solely the product of their genes is easily refuted by pointing out
- > that one's knowledge of set theory, quantum physics, or LR(1) parsers
- > is NOT instinctual and is, in fact, learned.
-
- Are you saying that you must have learned something to be human?
- Even before we learn set theory, we are capable of learning set theory
- which distinguishes us from other life forms which are not. And a
- single cell human has the capacity to grow to the point at which that
- human will have the capacity to learn. Skin cells do not have that
- capacity. Nor does an unfertilized egg. Thus the death of a skin
- cell or of an unfertilized egg is distinctly different from the death
- of a single cell human or 8-cell human. The killing of the latter is
- murder, the killing of the former is not.
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- Sue Hasselbring
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