Marry Ann Warren: What Does It Means To Be Human?
For this week’s posting, I will be discussing a topic from the assignment I found interesting and the reason why. Marry Ann Warren gives an interesting definition of what it means to be human. She argues that there are distinctions to the definition of humanness. To her, being part the moral sense is to be human, whereas genetic humanity does not qualify someone for being a human. Warren argues that the human fetus is not a person because they do not fulfill the five qualifications of personhood. I do disagree with her argument because it seems ridiculous to base a pro-choice, pro-abortion thesis on the notion that a fetus cannot exhibit consciousness, reasoning, self-motivation, communication and self-awareness therefore it cannot possibly