What is a person?

What is a person?
Is a person a legal term?
A corporation is a person
A set of cells is a person.
A nation is a person
The constitution said "All Men" were like persons, but it meant some were not, as well as women, landless, poor, slaves, and indigenous non-persons.
That was corrected or amended as differentiating between those nonpersons and persons became, if not cumbersome, more difficult.

Who is not a person?
A palestinian isnt a person.
A queer is not a person.
Dependent on where you are in the world and who you are, you may or may not be a person.

Who creates personhood?
The supreme court creates.
The congress creates
The scientific community creates.
The religious communities create
You create.

Christians point to the declaration of independence as a reference to america being "one nation under god", perhaps but are we governed by god? Is god a person?
Does god have a personality?
Does a corporation? A nation?
Some persons claim god speaks through them and we should listen to them.
What does god say about who is a person?
He doesnt, but some other person will inform you what god told him about it.

A person (she, he, me, it) is one who has universal human rights. Or is it or does it? No one knows. So, just take your rights wherever you are.






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