From: YP Fun (ypprotection@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 15:24:14 MDT
--- Alex Ramonsky <alex@ramonsky.com> wrote:
> >Species are generally distinguished by:
> >
> >1. ability to mate
> >2. ability to have children
> >
> >By this definition all children born with the
> > appropriate genitalia can mate. All
> >children born with regular eggs and sperms
> >and normal plumbing, and the appropriate
> >chromosomes may have children.
> >Yah!! Babies deserve to live.
> >
>
> Huh?...You mean if my son gets his private parts
> pulled off in an
> accident, he's no longer human?
>
Can you retract the right to be human? I think in
biology it is assumed that once you have been
classified you don't get to be anything else.
This is a very interesting idea though....
Year 2100, a conversation takes place
in the sewers of humanity:
.... I was once human but I then contracted a mental
disease and failed my annual turing test now I am
no longer considered useful to society...
I think a better idea is to get to the source. People
should not be allowed to have children by default.
Only after rigorous screening should anyone be
allowed to have children. I have always wondered
why we need a license to drive a car yet not need a
license to give birth to a human being.
Soooo... on the day of conception the egg is
given a universal identifier.
At each stage the embryo gets more rights.
The rights of the embryo/child is scaled to
investment... The day the semi-being becomes
a net-producer (as opposed to a net-consumer) is the
the day it becomes a citizen.
Before we can establish individual net worth
we would need a very efficient economy....
itz a coming.
YP
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