No More Bin Laden

[kandrathe]

As soon as someone calls a 'fetus' a 'child', I realize that I'm dealing with an unthinking product of some form of indoctrination. At that point, I realize the game is not worth the candle -- the damage done to that brain is as insidious and as permanent as a lobotomy. Unless the person in question is no more than in his mid teens, there is no hope of him ever becoming a logical, rational individual. One cannot have a discussion with such an individual, because the very possibility of a position contrary to his which is not wrong is not a concept his damaged mind can contain or comprehend.

Would that be opinion, or fact?

Technically a child is any offspring that is not yet an adult, then again circularly, is it offspring if is isn't yet born? But biologically, a child is post birth, but your splitting hairs argument applies. Is it child if it could be born, but for some reason the birth is delayed by a few days or weeks (post term)? The word embryo comes to mind to define the in uterus potential non-human stage.