From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@msx.upmc.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 22 2002 - 07:26:25 MST
James Rogers [mailto:jamesr@best.com] wrote:
Or to put it another way, how is it any less right for me to say that I
will respect the importance of all sentients, but that "sentients" are
defined as, say, entities having an IQ higher than 140 (or any other
arbitary metric)? This standard would be no less arbitrary than the one
originally stated by Rafal. There seem to be a lot of terms and metrics
in these arguments that are defined to mean whatever people want them to
mean.
### I am not quite sure what you are referring to as the "standard
originally stated" by me. I think I was only talking about the meaning of
innocence, not about the definition of a "person".
This is a whole different topic, and a long one, too.
Rafal
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