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Originally Posted by daswig
By the "biological activity" definition, cancer is alive. That doesn't mean it has rights.
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I haven't seen anyone debating whether or not cancer is a "person."
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I prefer the respiration test. If it's breathing, it's alive. Until it has taken that first breath, it's not alive, and once it's stopped breathing, it's no longer alive. It has a certain elegance to it as a solution.
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I've got a sonogram of my son sucking his thumb in utero.
Know what? He sucked his thumb the day he was born, and for years afterward. Other than his lungs inflating, I don't think he changed a whole lot in the ten minutes or so it took him to get out (C-section).
He's 19 now, and as far as I can tell, his oral habits now involve human female breasts of a similar vintage.