I'll put on a pot of coffee.I don't think this question can be answered until define what a human is, and that is a question that has been debated for thousands of years. So good luck on pinning that one down.
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I'll put on a pot of coffee.I don't think this question can be answered until define what a human is, and that is a question that has been debated for thousands of years. So good luck on pinning that one down.
You are what you eat.Does that include the grilled cheese I had for lunch?
It's not a human being?It's a human fetus.
So, a human is a single called organism? Or a single called organism can be huma? If the latter, what are the qualifications of something to be human?It's the beginning of human life, so it is inherently human.
But think of this. Your body contains billions of living bacterial cells, that are not your cells. These bacterial cells do not share your DNA, to them you are merely a host, you are the environment in which they live. And when you stand on a scale, anywhere between 40% to 60% of that weight, is not you - it is them.You are what you eat.
And yet without these, would we exist?But think of this. Your body contains billions of living bacterial cells, that are not your cells. These bacterial cells do not share your DNA, to them you are merely a host, you are the environment in which they live. And when you stand on a scale, anywhere between 40% to 60% of that weight, is not you - it is them.![]()
What differentiates a human being from a fetus?the word human, in human fetus describes the genus of the fetus.
In the same way human child or human adult does.
Human needs to be qualified, as in human being, to make any sense.
A human fetus clearly is not yet a human being, nor does it have the rights of one.
However many religions and countries do ascribe moral rights to unborn children. And place duties of care on the parents.
Of course not. But the point is that there is something inside a human body, that is not human.And yet without these, would we exist?
And yet without these, would we exist?
If something cannot exist without another thing are they pragmatically distinguishable. Sure we can technically distinguish parts from a whole, but why label some parts as the whole when it is not so?Of course not. But the point is that there is something inside a human body, that is not human.
(Actually I don't even know what my point is, I just think it is neat)
I would suggest that it depends on the parts.If 40% of our body just vanished we would die.
I pray and write letters to the Virgin Mary, murdered girls , and a litany of dead people and feel closer to them than my family, and believe they speak to me through visions, dreams, signs, and coincidence, so I'm the wrong person to askA person kneels at the grave of a past ancestor, and lays a flower. Is that ancestor a human?
Humans were human long before DNA was discovered. I am human regardless of DNA. The fetus is human in the same way the ancestor, long turned to dust, is human.But think of this. Your body contains billions of living bacterial cells, that are not your cells. These bacterial cells do not share your DNA, to them you are merely a host, you are the environment in which they live. And when you stand on a scale, anywhere between 40% to 60% of that weight, is not you - it is them.![]()
Of course not. But the point is that there is something inside a human body, that is not human.
(Actually I don't even know what my point is, I just think it is neat)
Yes, they are human because they are the beginnings of human life. Life is sacred and is the most sacred form of creation (just to let you know where and why I stand on this).So, a human is a single called organism? Or a single called organism can be huma? If the latter, what are the qualifications of something to be human?
And what makes life count as life while we are at it?
I would suggest that it depends on the parts.
Q. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on earth?Humans were human long before DNA was discovered.
And would that be the same way in which a tomato is a suspension bridge? (that is to say - not)The fetus is human in the same way the ancestor, long turned to dust, is human.