(June 15, 2021 at 9:34 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Aren't you raising the bar? If human rights are grounded in one's humanity, then one must simply be human to have them. If instead personhood is the criteria for having human rights then there is a subset of humans that do not actually have human rights.
And this is the category error I was complaining about earlier. You use the word "human" to switch categories.
Human rights is about persons, not eggs or zygotes.
No, an fertilized egg with human DNA has no more rights than a fertilized egg of salamander DNA. It also does not possess a soul, and will not go to egg-heaven if it dies.
