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Also, the ideas of "natural rights" come from the theology of John Locke. The philosophy of John Locke is the bases of most democratic governments.
So I decided to look up what exactly John Locke's ideas were on what makes a person, because his name comes up frequently when it comes to defining what exactly the "self" is.
John Locke
"conscious thinking thing, (whatever substance, made up of whether spiritual, or material, simple, or compounded, it matters not) which is sensible, or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for itself, as far as that consciousness extends."
I just thought it was interesting and could be used as another way to refute the "homg the constitution sez right 2 life" arguments.
