I think we need a thread to celebrate people who are made of win. We've all been scrolling through other forums or the comments sections of a news article, rolling our eyes at the idiots posting, when we stumble upon someone who is made of win. Someone who takes their stance in such an intelligent or funny way that we can't help but want to hug them or buy them a round.
I'd like to start us off with a quote from Justin, OKC. The very quote that made me want to make this thread.
I would be interested to see if Mike Reynolds or other people that support this legislation could identify a “person†under this new broad definition. I would like some cell biologists to set up a practicum for these legislators that want to redefine personhood to include a clumps of cells and undeveloped fetuses. The first part of the practicum would be to look at various cell lines under a microscope and identify which one is a person. Some could be fish embryos, mice embryos and other various species and of course what they want identified as people, human embryos. We could also include cultures including bacteria and fungi and cell lines from different human and animal tissues. Among the hundred or so samples we can include five “personsâ€Â. If these legislators can’t identify “persons†with a high degree of accuracy, I say their new definition is bunk.
The second part of the practicum will be to look at fetuses from different species at an early stage of development and identify which one is a person. Again there can be a hundred or so examples with five being “persons†and the rest being anything from cats to dolphins. If these legislators can’t accurately identify the “persons†then again I say the definition is bunk. And since most conservatives have a strong aversion to science, I predict that most of them wouldn’t be able to identify persons using their own definition.
Read more:
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-lawmakers-seek-personhood-other-questions/article/3640872#ixzz1kBVRCXFf