(May 18, 2012 at 8:35 am)Phil Wrote:(May 18, 2012 at 8:30 am)Paul the Human Wrote: Nah. That would just be mean.
And claiming a living breathing human is a biological machine and not a living person because they lack most of their brain isn't?
Claiming it is not mean. Telling it's mother would be.
(May 18, 2012 at 8:35 am)Phil Wrote: Sure most die within hours or days but Nicholas Coke is alive and well and was born anencephalitic in 2008.
But he is not a 'person', in that he does not think, does not have a personality or even a persona. He is a biological machine that was supposed to have been a person, but didn't make it that far. It isn't my fault.