[Vision2020] Sotomayor: US Supreme Court's Sixth Catholic?

[g. crabtree]

"I don't automatically extend personhood to the pre-born (and the "40
 week old person" was only just added)."


So having "just been added" to the human race qualifies one for less 
consideration than that of others? At what age do you imagine that one 
acquires full personhood? 6 months? 2 years? When you graduate from high 
school? Which of these milestones make one enough of a human to be deserving 
of the term innocent?

g


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
To: "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>
Cc: <bear at moscow.com>; "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Sotomayor: US Supreme Court's Sixth Catholic?


> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 20:35, g. crabtree<jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
>> I am hard pressed to think of a right I would extend to a 40 week old 
>> person
>> that I wouldn't be happy to afford a 30 week old "shoelace." What rights 
>> did
>> you have in mind that shouldn't apply?
>
> We were comparing the pre-born to the post-born, and I challenged the
> applicability of the word "innocence" to the former.
>
> The pre-born can't be innocent in the same sense that they can't be 
> guilty.
>
> I don't automatically extend personhood to the pre-born (and the "40
> week old person" was only just added).
>
> The personhood argument has been held far too many times to belabor it 
> again.
>