If at All Humanly Possible
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Hollywood stunt people, who didn't wear their seat-belts, or who botchErl their suicide attempts). This doesn't bother Wreen. In response to my having pointed out that "at most Wreen has made a case for the ascription of basic rights to those human non-persons whose condition is no fault of their own" (p. 126). (The first two words are ernmasizErl because they were inadvertently omitted from Wreen's quotation in his response.) Wreen replies that it would be consistent with his position to hold that such non-persons have forfeited their right to life (WII: p. 26-7). I continue to find this counter-intuitive, but the reader must check his/her own intuitions on this point.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011