On personhood

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Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Personhood is a biased term: it only ever comes up when someone is trying to deny it.

No one questions whether the person walking next to them on the street is a person: it's only used when discussing whether fetuses ... or the brain dead, or criminals, or members of a racial/ethnic/national group you don't like ... "deserve" to be considered human.

As a result, there's no one "right" meaning, because that meaning is inherently tied to people's opinions (on the issues where the term gets used).

Actually the right meaning is a person's a person no matter how small. 😛

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