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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Hold on there. >"It's the POTENTIAL for life. A gopher fetus will end up as a gopher, which isn't judged to be sentient by most people. A human fetus will end up as a human." Er.. a gopher is still alive. I must assume, then, that you're not talking about the potential for LIFE, but rather the potential for SENTIENCE. In that case... What IS sentience? (And if you follow the Picard-expressed concept, in "Measure of a Man," then what are Intelligence, Self-Awareness, and Consciousness?) And can we find human beings who do not possess sentience or the further "potential" for it? Probably. The comatose, the brain-damaged, the severely disabled. Does this lack then delete their rights? Can we find animals that appear to possess some degree of sentience? Possibly. Some animal-rights advocates (I am not one of them) believe that all warm-blooded animals are "sentient." >" Since it is our DNA that defines our individuality as human beings" Is it? Identical twins have identical DNA. Yet they are EACH individuals. Therefore, individuality is not present at conception. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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