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Originally Posted by Dilettante
I never said the hamster should have rights. I'm merely trying to dismiss the notion that physical attachment (or even dependence) can be equated with identity. Neither the hamster, nor the leech, nor the parasite, nor the unborn is a part of the body it is glued-to/attached-to/inside.
Whether any of these organism should be granted any rights at all is another question; I was just trying to establish that they are, in fact, separate organisms.
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Dilettante, I know you're trying to pass me batons with words like bodypart and identity on them. However, I'm not grabbing any because it's utterly irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that a relationship between parties exists, temporarily or otherwise, such that the access to a right or privilege of one party restricts the access to a right or privilege of another party. That's really all there is to it.