What is a person?

[OddBeMe]

Human with a functioning brain

Anything with Human DNA

Human who uses brain voluntarily

Other

[John_Doesnt]

Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fUspLVStPbk

[OddBeMe]

Masturbation is serial killing.

[msc545]

Anything that is alive and has human form OR will grow to have human form.

[OddBeMe]

funny that last part isn't a qualifier

[msc545]

why not?

[OddBeMe]

I mean is a seed a plant?

[OddBeMe]

Is a microchip a computer?

[msc545]

If it is fertilized, it is a form of a plant.

[msc545]

microchips do not grow to become computers, and they are not alive.

[OddBeMe]

We’re talking about basic logic. So similarly…a fertilized egg can’t be a person with a sense of self. Or individual.

[msc545]

how do you know that?

[msc545]

Also, please define "sense of self" and also define "individual".

[OddBeMe]

A brain.

[msc545]

Thanks for MHO

[Cubus]

Person is "a subject of a rational nature. It can be a human, as well as God, understood as a being distinguished by the most perfect form of existence. Originally, in both Greek and Latin, the word meant "the mask" worn by actors in the ancient theater. Then it came to be used to refer to the role that an individual plays in the drama of life. In contemporary philosophy, it is a key concept for Christian and non-Christian personhood, having its sources in the Christian (especially Thomistic) understanding of man as a being separate from the world of things, nature, including animals.

[OddBeMe]

sure but I guess i was leaning toward things that are proven to exist.

[OddBeMe]

spiderman is a person. but he doesn't exist.

[Cubus]

Spiderman is a person that exists in some fictional universum.

Personhood doesn't deal with the topic if someone exists in our universe or only exists in some novel/movie.

[OddBeMe]

Agreed. I guess the second step would be “does the person exist?”

[NaultD]

Featherless bipedal. Then a homeless man tossed a plucked chicken in my philosophy class and tells me to eat shit.

The same homeless man when asked by Alexander the great what he was doing digging through human bones he answered "I'm looking for your father but i can't distinguish him between the slaves."

[Agape93]

A person is a human or humanoid with the ability of thought, emotion and a sense of self.

Human =/= person

[OddBeMe]

I like a “sense of self.”

[Sevenpointfive]

i honestly hated philosophy. the questions, the answers and the hypotheticals. i did enjoy the debates and stupidity bashing.

a person? a human i may or may not know. meat sack with a brain? see what i mean?

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Someone who has a reputation

[OddBeMe]

Ahh thanks!

[Stoner710]

D all the above