> All !
>
> I think we are confusing biological levels with intellectual, and moreover
> the discussions sometimes seems to go in to all of the traditional
> philosophical traps that MOQ are supposed to go around.
>
> When I read a other philosophy (other than Pirsig) I add the concept of
> quality and then ( to me ) it almost always clear things up.
>
> Regarding abortion, a fetus is purely biological it has very little of
> perceptions ( DQ ) and no conceptions at all ( SQ ). When the fetus
> develops
> it acquire static pattern ( Concepts ) and develop it's perceptional
> system.
> At some time after birth we come to regard this baby as a person. A person
> has memories of the past and expectations of a future. A persons life has
> higher value than a non person, this actually makes it ok to kill non
> persons, for example a new born with so severe damages that it is
> impossible
> to imagine that this baby could become a person. Actually according to
> this
> reasoning Apes, Dogs, Cows and most mammals are, at least to a degree,
> persons and killing them would not be right !!
>
> The fact that a living being contains human DNA does not make it a person
> but just a biological being it is when that biological being develops
> social
> and intellectual patterns that it becomes a person (apes and dogs are
> social
> animals) I don't think that it is a good idea to rank different beings on
> some sort of scale according to level of their intellect it is better to
> regard all 'persons' as beings that has the right to live.
>
> I apologies for poor English,
>
> Best regards to all,
>
> Anders
>
>
>
>
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