Dad sues ‘Thank God for Dead Soldiers’ church

[Shinylight]

To be human is to be free, it is to be able to express oneself through the arts, through the public arena, through science and mathematics etc...

Weird... here i thought that was to be an unrestricted person. A human is just any species belonging to the genus Homos so far as I can tell...

I am not saying they lose the right to call themselves part of the human species, I am saying they lose some of the fundamental freedoms that constitute a fulfilled human life.

We use these things as a voice, slaves do not have the right to express themselves through these media, through their voice, that is why I said they were not human.

Not possessing the "right" does not necessarily mean one cannot. They are plenty human, they are even people... they are just restricted people :S

If you are oppressed through slavery then you cannot do those things, you may be killed otherwise, slaves are not autonomous, once again, I am not saying they are not biologically human and people is basically another word for human.

We may easily be able to function as a hive but we do not, because we are not a hive animal, we are human.

The implementation of churches are some similar facilities can often reflect 'hive (or 'herd') behavior' as one might expect from a collective consciousness?

That is through choice, an example of personal freedom.