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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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 +FIXME https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5jSIx6vJLr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link pretty good example of talking about personhood/ "human + X"
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 <note> **Insert Oriyana's testimony about sentience - amoeba vs. embryo** </note> <note> **Insert Oriyana's testimony about sentience - amoeba vs. embryo** </note>
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 Once we draw the line anywhere later than fertilization, there is nothing that grounds our views regarding rights. Because if humans only have rights due to some acquired property rather than by virtue of being members of the human family, all we are left with is arbitrary definitions of personhood that always leave some humans out. In the past, and in Canada currently, the strong deny personhood to the weak in order to victimize those individuals. A civil society should protect all humans and not discriminate against the youngest and most vulnerable humans.  Once we draw the line anywhere later than fertilization, there is nothing that grounds our views regarding rights. Because if humans only have rights due to some acquired property rather than by virtue of being members of the human family, all we are left with is arbitrary definitions of personhood that always leave some humans out. In the past, and in Canada currently, the strong deny personhood to the weak in order to victimize those individuals. A civil society should protect all humans and not discriminate against the youngest and most vulnerable humans. 
    
 +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
  
 https://www.endthekilling.ca/blog/2015/04/15/bad-ideas-and-bloody-consequences --> re: Maaike's debate with Sumner https://www.endthekilling.ca/blog/2015/04/15/bad-ideas-and-bloody-consequences --> re: Maaike's debate with Sumner
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   * :?: Scientific Materialism: http://www.equip.org/articles/what-the-walking-dead-can-teach-pro-lifers/ FIXME 300-level?   * :?: Scientific Materialism: http://www.equip.org/articles/what-the-walking-dead-can-teach-pro-lifers/ FIXME 300-level?
   * http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/01/life-defining-the-beginning-by-the-end-24 -- second half addresses many functionalist claims, also Abraham Lincoln's argument   * http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/01/life-defining-the-beginning-by-the-end-24 -- second half addresses many functionalist claims, also Abraham Lincoln's argument
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 +FIXME https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/