Felicity quoted: "It is true that every fetus is an individual ANIMAL ORGANISM. Whoop-te-do. You are trying to extract more from a simple statement than is actually there. You are still basing your argument on faulty reasoning!"
"It's a ladder rather than a chain of linking circles. It's a web of clusters of dependant information rather than a venn diagram. You skip a few rungs on the ladder of describing human life when you want to call a fetus an animal. You've heard of Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species? Each new term describes the organisms in that group a little more precisely... When you call a fetus in a human being's womb an animal...you skip over all those steps that each help to more precisely define the individual "thing" you are talking about."
HAH! NONE of those fancy labels change the biological fact that humans are animals, and NONE of those fancy labels gives a human fetus any more brainpower than an animal. THEREFORE YOU ARE STILL USING FAULTY REASONING, to imply that a human fetus is more than it actually is. Just like I wrote in what you quoted above.
Felicity quoted: "And you DO know, don't you, that the phrase refers to various entities sometimes called "brownies" or "elves" or "wee folk"? NONHUMANS, THEY ARE DESCRIBED AS. AND PERSONS ALSO,"
--and wrote: "Check out your own challenge, darlin'. I said all persons are human because IN THE REAL WORLD...that's the facts, jack. But in your fantasy land...yeah...brownies and elves and wee folk were imagined to have rational wills, no?...so no duh they were called "people.""
You are still ignoring FACTS. In this particular case, despite the fact that NOWADAYS we regard such entities as brownies as being fanciful, THAT WAS NOT THE CASE IN THOSE DAYS, when the phrase "little people" originated. They took such things VERY SERIOUSLY, just as they took seriously the notion that devils and angels walked the Earth.
And in a musing vein of "hmmmm....", consider this:
http://ufocasebook.com/Aurora.html (I saw a TV show about that not long ago, which mentioned finding a piece of metal that was 95% aluminum and 5% iron, an alloy VERY difficult to make on Earth, due to the different densities of the metals, but easy to make in the zero-G environment of a space factory.) All it would take is for some similar event in past centuries, with survivors, for the myth of "little people" to come into existence. Not to mention that the sub-group called "leprechauns" were considered magical, and according to Clarke's Third Law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.Laws.html Hmmmm..., indeed! Also, do note there is NO faulty reasoning in this part of my post; there is only some unverified data upon which the reasoning is based, and I have NOT claimed that that data is totally valid. Here I am simply presenting food for thought, while you have tended to make bald pronouncements, such as the quote above that more-or-less states the "real world" excludes nonhuman intelligences, just because we don't routinely encounter them. That IS faulty reasoning! Especially for someone who elsewhere claims that there exists an intelligent nonhuman often referred-to as "God". It is hypocritically faulty reasoning!
Felicity quoted: " Human life only matters to humans, AS THEY SUBJECTIVELY CHOOSE."
--and wrote: "Humans choose. Not teenagers, not Asian women, not dentists....HUMANS subjectively identify those qualities that separate them from the rest of the animal kingdom."
MORE FAULTY REASONING. NOTHING can "separate" humans from the animal kingdom; we are as FULLY a part of that kingdom as we are fully human. A more accurate word is "distinguish"; as for example, "In a crowd of various animals, humans can be usually distinguished by these traits..." That is, humans are animals AND chordates AND vertebrates AND mammals AND primates AND apes; we do not lose any of the subsidiary characteristics just because we happen to have additional features that are unique to humans.
Now, getting back to another part of what you wrote, yes, humans DO choose how they go about distinguishing their group from non-humans. And, humans do NOT need ALL the possible traits of humans to make that determination. A common minimum suffices, as I've already written elsewhere. Thus immature humans such as first-grade shool-children are part of "humanity", even though they lack the ability to reproduce (which IS, if you recall, one of the key things that has often been used to define "life", and not that tiny subset of life called humanity!).
Similarly, unborn humans are nevertheless humans, even though they exhibit no more brainpower than ordinary animals. IT IS THE HUMANS THAT HAVE THE BRAINPOWER THAT DO THE CHOOSING, as to what qualifies as human --AND to what degree human-ness MATTERS. That last thing is the key thing you have chosen to ignore. Some humans DO choose to regard unborn humans as not-mattering, because they lack brainpower (and it is more-than-animal brainpower that matters to them), while some humans choose to regard unborn humans as mattering, despite their lack of brainpower (because other purely animal traits, excluding brainpower, matters to them). This choice IS entirely subjective, which fact you ALSO ignored. You have NO argument which can require all humans-who-can-choose, to regard all unborn humans as mattering. But **I** have an argument for **YOU**. Brainpower matters BECAUSE IT CAN CHOOSE. Without the brainpower, NO human could claim that humans matter. So, empowered humans who dismiss the mindless unborn do so because it is CONSISTENT to do so. Likewise, brain-dead humans on life-support are unplugged because when the brainpower-to-choose is gone, the life doesn't matter. Meanwhile, YOU ARE INCONSISTENT. You use your brainpower to choose to claim that brainpower you used to make that choice doesn't matter as much as other things! Such inconsistency is just another sign of faulty reasoning on your part!
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..I prefer to think you're just geeky because I have geek qualities myself and I can identify with it, but...really....one begins to wonder...:doh 
