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View Poll Results: A human being is...
...bio-automation, organic machinery.	1	14.29%
...sumthin’ more than bio-automation, not only organic machinery.	6	85.71%
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10-08-2019, 06:29 PM

henry quirk

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

to everyone other than you, yes. You may see yourself as a person, but if I think you're a monster.... then to me....

Well, you can see a campfire as a block of ice but that doesn't make the fire any less searing.

That is: your opinion doesn't overwrite reality.

So: is personhood intrinsic or bestowed (that seems to be the question between us)?

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