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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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   * :?: 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/