Agent 204 writes:
I look at it this way- there's a difference between a human life and a person. A fetus is a human life, but I'd suggest that it's possible for something to be human without being a person, and murder, by definition, involves killing a person. Incidentally, I also think it's possible for something to be a person without being human. I don't know of any real-world examples, but hypothetical examples would include alien or artificial intelligent beings.
Let's see. A fetus is a human life. But because he has no means of survival other than living in his mom's womb, he's not a person?
Every attempt at discriminating against an ethnic group began with the separation of biological life and personhood. At some level, the ethnic "other" was not a person, and that made it convenient to kill them.
I love the "hypothetical" example. Suppose aliens did come down and were biologically human. Would they not be persons? If they react like persons, they are!
And artificial intelligence? It's not biological life and never will be.
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