Personhood is a legal category and an assumed moral category that policies can point to. Usually, the rules being argued about are about the acceptability of killing something. The category is used differently depending on the moral framework, but it is usually assumed to point at the same objects. Therefore disagreements are interpreted as mistakes.
Personally, I have my doubts on there being an exact point in development that you can point to where a human becomes a person. If there is it might be weeks after birth.
Personhood is a legal category and an assumed moral category
Both of which are mostly based on examples and past decisions/​precedent, rather than scientific or operational definitions. Thus,
it is usually assumed to point at the same objects. Therefore disagreements are interpreted as mistakes.
is itself a huge mistake. There is absolutely no reason to believe that any given legal framework agrees on any specific with other legal systems, and even less that moral systems would agree with each other or with legal systems.
Personhood is a legal category and an assumed moral category that policies can point to. Usually, the rules being argued about are about the acceptability of killing something. The category is used differently depending on the moral framework, but it is usually assumed to point at the same objects. Therefore disagreements are interpreted as mistakes.
Personally, I have my doubts on there being an exact point in development that you can point to where a human becomes a person. If there is it might be weeks after birth.
Both of which are mostly based on examples and past decisions/​precedent, rather than scientific or operational definitions. Thus,
is itself a huge mistake. There is absolutely no reason to believe that any given legal framework agrees on any specific with other legal systems, and even less that moral systems would agree with each other or with legal systems.