Inflamatory post inflames.

[policraticus]

So, I came upon this article.

Here is a newspaper article about it for those of you who don't want to bother reading a whole journal article. And by "those of you," I mean, "everyone."

I have a couple questions that will hopefully stir a little debate and flog a horse already deader than Eohippus1. I say, "Why not?" The conclusion seems to

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[fizzyland]

Inflammatory? Not really. Personhood as in "Born, living human" is a standard underpinning to our civil and legal systems. It takes more than logic games to form an argument counter to that.

It's great the authors are sincere. Sincere people are wonderful, it doesn't mean they should be making decisions for the rest of us.

[anfalicious]

Because keeping your job depends on X amount of published articles per year. This one was bound to be picked up because it's bound to generate media heat.

[policraticus]

It is debatable weather, "born, living human," is sufficient to be considered a "person," at least if we are using these folks and Peter Singer as a guide.

I thought we were supposed to be listening to experts who have studied these difficult and complicated issues objectively, rationally and using the best scientific consensus.

[onefatmusicnerd]

Science cannot answer, "what is a person"?

[yelena_r0ssini]

Peter Singer is a jackass.