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* age-based discrimination | * age-based discrimination | ||
* human rights doctrines vs. personhood (discrimination) | * human rights doctrines vs. personhood (discrimination) | ||
- | * Response to the speciesism claim | + | * Response to the speciesism claim? Or put that in Singer seminar? |
- | * Stories to include to illustrate things? | + | * FIXME Stories to include to illustrate things? |
* Nick Vujicic - our humanity and value should not be based on our abilities... | * Nick Vujicic - our humanity and value should not be based on our abilities... | ||
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The first question we need to ask is, **What is a person? Why should anyone accept the idea that there can be such a thing as a human being that is not a human person?** What’s the difference? | The first question we need to ask is, **What is a person? Why should anyone accept the idea that there can be such a thing as a human being that is not a human person?** What’s the difference? | ||
- | ==== Human Rights are for All Human Beings | + | ==== Who gets human rights? |
> "... the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of **all members of the human family** is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world" - Universal Declaration of Human Rights((http:// | > "... the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of **all members of the human family** is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world" - Universal Declaration of Human Rights((http:// | ||
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==== Consciousness and Sentience ==== | ==== Consciousness and Sentience ==== | ||
- | FIXME distinctions between terms: sentience vs. rationality vs. self-awareness...they are different things, but in typical conversations get lumped under the same vague umbrella | + | FIXME distinctions between terms: sentience vs. rationality vs. self-awareness...they are all different things, but in typical conversations get lumped under the same vague umbrella |
FIXME brief intro to Peter Singer | FIXME brief intro to Peter Singer | ||
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* To define personhood based on functionalist criteria such as sentience, viability, or life experience is to define it based on one’s level of development. And an individual’s development generally corresponds with her age: The older one gets, the more developed she becomes. The younger she is, the less time has passed for her to develop the structures necessary to perform various functions. | * To define personhood based on functionalist criteria such as sentience, viability, or life experience is to define it based on one’s level of development. And an individual’s development generally corresponds with her age: The older one gets, the more developed she becomes. The younger she is, the less time has passed for her to develop the structures necessary to perform various functions. | ||
* So the question we must consider is this: //Do those of us who are older have a right to kill those who are younger//? Clearly, to select age-related criteria for personhood is arbitrary and discriminatory. It pits older humans against younger ones. | * So the question we must consider is this: //Do those of us who are older have a right to kill those who are younger//? Clearly, to select age-related criteria for personhood is arbitrary and discriminatory. It pits older humans against younger ones. | ||
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* Now some abortion advocates may argue they aren’t discriminating based on age, pointing out that some older humans never develop as they should (and should be classified as " | * Now some abortion advocates may argue they aren’t discriminating based on age, pointing out that some older humans never develop as they should (and should be classified as " | ||
* The question, they may ask, is not, "How old is she?" but instead, "How well does she function?" | * The question, they may ask, is not, "How old is she?" but instead, "How well does she function?" | ||
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Once we draw the line anywhere later than fertilization, | Once we draw the line anywhere later than fertilization, | ||
+ | FIXME //What grounds human rights and human equality?// "It can’t be that all of us look human, because some have been disfigured. It can’t be that all of us have functional brains, because some are in reversible comas. It can’t be one’s ability to think or feel pain, for some think better than others and some don’t feel any pain. It can’t be something we can gain or lose, or something of which we can have more or less. If something like that grounds rights, equal rights don’t exist...**There is only one quality we all have equally—we’re all human.”** - Steve Wagner | ||
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* :?: Scientific Materialism: | * :?: Scientific Materialism: | ||
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