[beavus]

If X is a part of a human being, then X is not a human being. No part can be a whole of the same sort as the part. That's ontology 101.

True, a part is not the same as the whole. But, what are you referring to specifically?

[adiaireton8]

True, a part is not the same as the whole. But, what are you referring to specifically?

Question_Assumptions said (in #25), "At no point in a person's lifecycle, from the moment they cease being a part of their respective parents and start being a distinct individual . . ."

That statement is incoherent because there is no point in a person's lifespan when he is a part of his parents. Parts are not wholes. Persons are wholes. Therefore parts are not persons.

- A8