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Personhood, Worth, Speculating God
In a post two weeks ago I raised the question of when personhood begins. Andrew Brown, writing for the Guardian the other day describes a debate between the secular philosopher John Harris, and Professor David Jones of St. Mary’s College (Roman Catholic) which raised an even more useful (and perhaps even more unanswerable) question: what [...]
It’s Life . . . . But Perhaps Not As We Now Conceptualise It
This morning we had an interesting conversation about aspects of Colorado’s Proposition 48, defining “personhood” as the moment of conception, which was (I think I read this right) defeated by a 3:1 margin in yesterday’s election. When does “life” begin? My geneticist other half made the comment that – strictly speaking, the genetic code is [...]