(May 31, 2014 at 12:18 pm)alpha male Wrote: DNA can be and is used to identify one person from another. It's a simple concept that doesn't require a lengthy elaboration or a clip form star trek.
...and?
Fingerprints are also useful to identify one person from another.
We're not discussing forensics here. We're talking about issues of morality and what determines our moral obligations.
Can I assume you'd conclude that Data, having no DNA, is a thing that can be treated as property?
Is it morally OK to throw kittens off a cliff for fun, since they have no human DNA?
It seems like the reason you don't want to elaborate is you haven't thought this through very well.
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