Re: Peterson's Death Sentence

From: John Fields (jfields_at_austininstruments.com)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:15:04 -0600

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:17:29 GMT, Parse Tree
<account@domain.extension> wrote:

>John Fields wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:57:55 GMT, Parse Tree
>> <account@domain.extension> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Aunty Kreist wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>But, you raise a good point...when does a fetus become a human life?
>>>
>>>It doesn't. It's a parasite until it leaves the host.
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Then you're arguing that it becomes human when it leaves the host, no?
>
>No, I'm arguing that it stops being a biological parasite when it can
>survive on its own. The law defines humanity as happening at around 18
>or so. 

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The question was directed to AK, but in any case ISTM that the
_biological_ parasitism would end with weaning, and the _social_
parasitism would end with the onset of, as John Woodgate explained,
symbiosis.
---
 
>> Unfortunately in some cases, leaving the host doesn't guarantee that
>> the parasitic behavior will end.
>
>Indeed!
-- 
John Fields

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