(November 4, 2016 at 10:15 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:Catholic_Lady Wrote:Chromosomal abnormalities don't make someone unhuman. The offspring of 2 humans is always going to be a human lol. It makes no sense for 2 humans to conceive a different species.
If you consider genetic structure the only essential marker for what's human (rather than awareness, viability, a functioning brain, etc.), what do you make of HeLa cells? Is a HeLa cell a human being?
Genetic structure is the only thing that makes sense for us to declare the species of an entity. Being in a comma doesn't make someone unhuman. Needing some sort of life line to survive doesn't make someone unhuman. And there are plenty of people who don't have a fully functioning brain and some babies are born with no brain at all. They survive for a few minutes and then die. It's not like they were not human lol.
As far as I am aware, a hela cell is a person's cancer cell. It's a different cell type, and it has the DNA makeup of the person it came from. Not its own unique set of human DNA.
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