Recent content by QuanSai

It's been half a year since Ed Dante's confessions as a ghostwriter were published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. I've never been so fascinated by the facilitation of laziness in academia, nor have I ever felt so impressed by it. Ed Dante is truly an inspiration, but not because he's a...

I asked the question in an intelligible manner, and I respected those with Down Syndrome as much as I could as I supported the basis for my confusion. Some of the responses were done in a radical tone -- obviously the result of some sort of bias; a personal offense. The assumptions some of you...

I'd love to do it again sometime. Thank you for helping me out. I'm truly grateful.

I swear, some of you are so ignorant that you're here ONLY for an argument. A forum of intellectuals is supposed to be present for the sharing of knowledge amongst those who want to learn. I greatly appreciate those of you who actually informed me rather than allude to some sort of ridicule...

The sarcasm is unnecessary. I only put quotation marks around terms I was unsure of how to use for political correctness.

Emphasis I'm clarifying which question you are refering to, because I don't understand your position in full. It doesn't seem like a person with DS is a normal human being. They're extremely different from what's considered normal, I think.

I actually don't know where to stand... I'm doing my research, but I'm extremely confused. I'm afraid to call them human, but I'm afraid to refrain from calling them that too.

I'm here to have a discussion, but I don't have a solid stand on the issue I've presented. I asked because I wanted help understanding species classification in terms of what's considered "human."

I can't dispute that. :)

lol I'm not here to debate. I'm here for enlightenment. So, please, enlighten me. =P

We aren't "entirely different" from chimpanzees, but chimpanzees are classified as something different from us because of our major differences.

There are plenty of "abnormal" mutations that come about everyday in terms of human development from the fetus to birth. I'm impartially asking if a "person" with Down Syndrome is to be considered a human being (homo sapiens sapiens). As most of you know or should know, Down Syndrome is a...

Valid point. However, lack of such an event will not hurt mankind as much as a machine such as V'ger would.

NO! This gives the machine more of a chance to become V'ger!

I tried stressing this in one of my earlier posts...