Reply #29: Technically anything is a potential human

[Az]

But that takes us away from the issue they are trying to get at. I suspect it is the nearness of the potential that makes it a more critical notion to them. The fear that in our rush to declare it not a person we may overstep and harm something that is.

I recommend we focus on what we can determine is necissary to be in existance to declare the presense of a human being and then think things out from there.