Consider someone who gets a knee replacement. A certain percentage of their bodies is not only no longer the same cells it used to be, but it is no longer even made out of their cells at all. We don't consider this to be a different person for the reasons Irrational stated above. The physical 'stuff' of our bodies isn't what I consider to be a self at all.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson