(February 10, 2014 at 5:38 pm)No_God Wrote: Am I defining "person" differently than you guys? Maybe I am misunderstanding.
Possibly. Person would (as I define it) refer to any sapient being deserving of rights. Personally I would even extend that to sapient aliens. It is simply that humans are the only sapient beings on earth (probably), so the term 'person' is generally attributed to them indiscriminately, even to those who are quite literally (for lack of an euphemism) mindless husks.