You know what really grinds my gears? RAPE-UBLICANS

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Apparently you believe that another human being’s personhood is dependent upon what you believe; so if a white supremacist believes that blacks are not people, then he is not committing moralistic murder by killing them?

Well, that's a mighty fine strawman, but since you're drawing it from a single line on my part, I'd say you're probably inaccurate in your depiction of my position.

It is illogical to create a false distinction between a person and a living human being. Given the definition of the term, a fetus is a person, your opinion will not change that.

I'll tear into your definition below in a second, but I'd add that a human being is defined by a number of biological traits in the first place, not least of them being an ability to survive outside of the womb. Humans are defined as apart from other animals with regards to their physical form, and a fetus lacks a number of those traits, inside and out, for quite a lengthy period in its gestation, like, say, a fully developed brain, and organs, and sensory capabilities... you know, all those specific things that humans have that separate us from other animals and set us in a classification of our own? How many of them are you willing to take away and still define something as human?

Human beings are people, but not everything that comes from a human is itself a human.

Person-
1. a human being, whether man, woman, or child.
2. a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing.

Is a dead body a person? Because that's all you're really arguing, that it's the flesh that ascribes personhood, and given that a fetus isn't in any way human looking as it develops, this is hardly the best definition you should be using.