Thursday, October 4, 2012

Consider these things

Consider this a thing -- is it a person?
Can it breathe?
Can it eat?
Can it pee, poop, and barf?
Can it look around? Can it smile?
Can it cry, can it coo, can it laugh?

Okay, now consider this thing.
Same questions --
is it a person?
Is it the same thing as the first thing?

Finally, consider this thing.
This is Cassidy Goodson, who strangled her newborn son to death.
Perhaps you don't think the first thing is a person, since it cannot do any of the things a person can do;
probably everyone can agree that the second thing is a person.

This third thing, however, is not a person.

If any of these three things deserves to die, it is this third thing.

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