Another Circumcision thread

[Excited Penguin]

Let me make this simpler.

I would actually consider someone a person as soon as they develop a conscience, if I were to come at it from a neuroscientific angle. But that's a problem, see, because one's conscience generally doesn't surface until many months later after birth.

But still, I would assume, even before that age human babies exhibit certain behaviours different from other animals at the same point in their lives. Distinctly so. So should we call them human because of that then? But that still has to do with the brain, it's patterns and functions. If you want to delve deeper, we're talking about genetics. So shouldn't we, rather, talk about fetuses as persons as soon as they develop brains with distinctly human features such that distinguishes them from other animals?

I have a feeling this problem should be put to rest by (neuro-)science rather than by such an ephemeral thing as law. Not to mention the obvious downside inherent in drawing your moral philosophy solely from the one your government enforces on you at any given moment...