2006-10-17 17:16:28 · 17 answers · asked by techronarrow 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Hitler and his regime showed no compassion, and committed crimes against humanity that were void of all sense of love. Yet NATZIs are throughout history considered persons - as though a classification as person is a biological matter.
Newborn babies cannot truly be said to have passion, and yet, under the law, they are considered persons, and given the same rights as persons. They are counted as persons in statistical matters, and governments record their existance as persons from birth until they die.
Hold on, though: they are considered persons under the law even before birth!
Why? Because any "child in utero" is considered to be a legal victim if injured or killed during the commission of a federal crime of violence. The bills definition of "child in utero" is "a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb."
http://www.wndu.com/news/042003/news_19536.php
2006-10-18 14:19:10 · update #1
all embrios contain enough DNA to form fingerprints while in the womb, choose hair color, shape body parts, and countless other individual characteristics.
personality begins to form in the womb as touch and hearing emerge, and brainwaves ....
2006-10-18 14:38:34 · update #2
Milestones in fetal development
4-5 months: baby can kick hard enough for his mother to feel it
3 months: breathing (amniotic fluid)
3 months: capable of hearing
2 months: all body systems functioning
2 months: ultrasound has seen babies this age sucking their thumbs
40 days: brain waves can be measured with an Electronencephalogram
(Today we declare someone to be legally dead when his brain waves cease. So if the end of brainwaves marks the legal end of life, perhaps the start of brainwaves should mark the legal start of life?)
18 days: heart begins to beat
(Even today the most common way to determine that someone is dead is probably to check for pulse or heatbeat. So if we say you're dead when your heart stops, shouldn't we say you're alive when you're heart starts?
2006-10-18 14:39:33 · update #3
http://www.rightgrrl.com/99grrls/February/cheri/abortion.html
2006-10-18 14:51:20 · update #4
how can a baby be able to empathize, when she doesn't even know understand her world yet? that baby, even still, is, without question, a person. empathy does not equal personhood.
2006-10-18 14:54:21 · update #5
mentally handicapt persons, as far as i am aware, have the right to vote in many, if not most, democratic locations. this is in spite of the fact that most have impared, if not lacking, ability to reason.
also without the gift of reason are babies and children.
kill a handicapt *person*, a baby, or a child, and you quickly will realize that all three are truly persons. just watch CSI or Law & Order if you don't believe me.
2006-10-18 15:01:28 · update #6
once again, personality and creativity are completely relative of many factors, and yet the status of personhood is a binary fractor: you are either a person or you are not.
you can be a young person, a mentally challenged person, a kind person, an elderly and decrepid person, or an evil person, but human life always is equal to personhood, as nellie mclung and all other early feminists and progressive thinkers would agree.
it's just as simple as common sense.
2006-10-18 15:05:37 · update #7
At conception, a new human is created.... that human is a person. Their status doesn't depend on being carried full term to birth... Conception is the start of a new human being/person.... some would argue that a human is not a person until they develop a personality.... not so.... babies hear while still in the womb... they start to develop their person-ality before birth.
2006-10-17 17:26:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think your question could have been 'what makes a lawyer a human a person?'. The only time I've heard this reference is in the law.
2006-10-18 00:33:43 · answer #2 · answered by MJ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The question should be "What makes a person a human" and the key is the amount of reptoid, or annunaki blood in them.
2006-10-18 00:18:28 · answer #3 · answered by Dan 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Strong individualism, intellect, strong personality, but mostly creativeness, ability to think by his or her own, to be independent from the others' opinions.
2006-10-18 00:40:00 · answer #4 · answered by gkolesova 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The personality of a human being.
2006-10-18 01:34:35 · answer #5 · answered by MeMyselfanI 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The ability to reason things out.
2006-10-18 00:24:30 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
being regarded as an individual
2006-10-18 00:18:26 · answer #7 · answered by sunrisesover12th 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are one and the same
2006-10-18 00:17:14 · answer #8 · answered by JB 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We are animals, but with 80% more drama.
2006-10-18 00:23:54 · answer #9 · answered by red line 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Compassion,passion and love
2006-10-18 00:17:54 · answer #10 · answered by eugene65ca 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋