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Carl-E:
A sterile person can still go through the motions, and still has that urge...
Papersatan:
I argued this one in 8th grade biology. I was shown a picture of a picked flower and asked it was alive. I said yes, and the teacher said no. My argument was that an individual need not, in an isolated moment, meet all the requirements of life to be alive. If they once had or will have the capacity, then they are alive until all indicators cease. We don't class women on the other side of menopause or babies as dead. In the case of the flower, if put in water it may have struggled on for week, or, depending on the variety, even sprouted roots and made it years. In the case of those who are naturally sterile, they were presumably on track to have a working reproductive system at some point.
I am not sure where mules fit in though.
Is it cold in here?:
Here's a way it could go horribly wrong. Research claims to show a correlation between some personality traits and political orientation. What if those personality traits are even partly heritable?
LTK:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 12 Sep 2012, 14:13 ---My argument was that an individual need not, in an isolated moment, meet all the requirements of life to be alive. If they once had or will have the capacity, then they are alive until all indicators cease.
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I like that! It's a much better argument than the one I had about there being a difference between 'life' and 'living'. Yours is best because it describes life independently of time.
BeoPuppy:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 12 Sep 2012, 14:13 ---[...]
I am not sure where mules fit in though.
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They ... don't?
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