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To: NonZeroSum
I already explained, the interior of an aircraft in flight is sovereign territory of the nation in which it is registered. If it is an Air France flight, it would be as if the child were born in France. It has nothing to do with the air space in which it is flying.

Alien space ship of no Earth nationality?

I have no idea what kind of point you are attempting to make with this "thought experiment."

Sure you do. I am demonstrating how ridiculous is an idea of citizenship based on hair splitting about being born inside our borders.

It has been a useful exercise for me. It made me realize that Abortion and jus soli citizenship are connected by the same thread, while pro-life and jus sanguinius are also connected by a common thread.

Abortion proponents argue that an unborn child is NOT A PERSON until born. Jus Soli proponents argue that a child is not a CITIZEN until born, and then it depends on where the child is born.

Pro-life, and jus sangunius both argue that the characteristics of the person are created at the moment of conception, not at some later date by some threshold criteria.

36 posted on 08/31/2011 1:21:06 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (1790 Congress: No children of a foreign father may be a citizen.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

A fetus is a human being at conception. It is not a citizen. Having its citizenship be determined by time and place of conception would be ridiculous since, unlike a birth, it wouldn’t be possible to authenticate it.

This is a really dumb argument.

And if it was born on an alien spaceship, it would have the citizenship of whatever planet the ship was from.


37 posted on 08/31/2011 1:55:46 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
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