(February 3, 2016 at 3:51 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(February 3, 2016 at 3:13 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Cancer cells are cells from the person themselves. Made up of the same brand of DNA. Destroying a person's cancer cells won't kill that person any more than us shedding our skin cells/etc on a daily basis, does. A fetus is not a person's cancerous cells. But rather, a separate entity (as evident by having its own unique set of human DNA).... a being of its own, made up of its own cells.
But, that's a different argument from the one I quoted. You claimed that being made of human DNA made something a human being.
By this new argument, you could claim that identical twins are not different people since they have the exact same DNA.
Being an entity made up of its own set of human DNA makes you a human being. My arm is made up of human DNA, but it's part of my body. It isn't in itself a human being.
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