I would like to make several points regarding Elton Wong’s Friday column. Plato once defined a human as a two-legged animal that walked upright and had no feathers. It was accepted until a student threw a plucked chicken over the wall of the classroom with the sign “Plato’s Human” around its neck.It seems you have followed Plato’s footsteps. You state dogs and dolphins are also human. They “think, feel, communicate and have relationships with one another.”You also stated that sperm and eggs have the potential to become human. How can they do that separately?If an embryo can be killed at any time, then we must determine when that embryo becomes human. Would you define that as the time at which the embryo can “think, feel, communicate and have relationships?” Then what’s the difference between a 2-month-old baby and one in the womb? Who’s to say a baby’s kick isn’t a form of communication? Should we be allowed to murder a young child until it passes some “becoming a human” test? How do you make this distinction? How do you make any distinctions, for that matter? Rationally, there must be an eternal being — the very definition of being — who gives being its origin. I agree with Paul when he spoke at Athens to the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers of the day. He answered the root to all secular philosopher’s questions saying: “In [God] we live and move and have our being.”Jaron Vos

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