[Ads-l] body = 'human being as a complete person'

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Traditionally a person has been considered as more than a mere body, but
> maybe that's changing.
>

It's not changing.

The politically-relevant point is that it's not a *person* getting his ass
shot off - presumably, people would care, if that was happening - but just
some random black body.
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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