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Re: No.1 killer of blacks in NYC

Posted by JayMan on Sun Feb 27 12:10:58 2011, in response to Re: No.1 killer of blacks in NYC, posted by Train Dude on Sat Feb 26 18:21:05 2011.

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A couple of insights here: obviously, the things that makes us human and separates us from all other forms of life are our ability to think, feel, reflect, and reason. So already some red-staters are out. But all these abilities reside in the brain, specifically the cerebral cortex. So before the cortex comes online, a "human" in the sense does not exist, and a "fetus" is still a lump of cells with some autonomic responses. This does not take place until as late as the third trimester, give or take a few weeks.

But it's not like we can have a brain meter to monitor awareness or cognition, however rudimentary, so we have to choose a cut-off point, one necessarily arbitrary, even if guided by fact -- no different than setting the driving age to 16 or the voting age to 18 -- even though surely some individuals on either side of the cut-off should not be where they are. This is what we have done with abortion, and additional legal considerations, such as viability, etc... come into play. But any definition of life (sentient life) is going to be fuzzy, and we need to understand the limitations due to this.

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