I have a pet fungus...you know this.

I can't help it if Americans keep changing English words, I'm Scottish but the word means in English English a definable personality. Not a human.

You Mormonites believe in God and Angels and Jesus are these not people too or are they something else?

When aliens and AI arrive in a few years time you will find them not impressed with your narrow definition of 'person'.

I know you are capable of believing weird things (not an insult) from weird sources (also not an insult I use weird in a descriptive not a qualitative sense).

But if you are saying that a zygote has unexpressed desires that you wish to defend please extend that defense to the helpless plankton of the world at the mercy of those evil whales.

Yes I defend the rights of mice because they have a clear desire to not die or feel pain and express happiness when their goals are achieved. You are happy to eat more sophisticated creatures which makes you inconsistent or at least speciesist. If someone were to offer human meat for sale would you eat it if it came from someone with the mental capacity of a cow?

Warbler warbed :
That is completely asinine.

I don't take that as an insult. Donkey's, mules and other equines are far more sophisticated than dogs and you wouldn't eat a dog...would you?