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Well I don't think that private hospitals/schools should be disposed off, but nor do I believe public hospitals/schools should be entirely privatised, either.

Re: Anti-Privatization I'm sure there are; what are your reasons for or against?

Nope, hence the qualifiers "I think" :p

A zygote/blastocyst/embryo is certainly life, though definitely not a self-sustaining one. I think that "personhood" is entirely distinct from "life", at least in this context.

I don't think that anyone disagrees with that. Life is life. I think the distinction we're trying to make is when "personhood", to use the phrase of the ND bill, begins, if ever.

[citation needed]

Agreed.

Knowledge: the ultimate drug/aphrodesiac/awesome thing.

I was referring to you, dear. Nevermind.

If your opinion is that souls exist, then I'm afraid to tell you that a) expect to be ridiculed here, and b) you have no right not to be offended by such ridicule. Fair warning. :)

I was more asking about the measurability/quantifiability of "personhood".

No news is good news.

Here we go! If only Alan Shore was real :(

Hah yeah, considering male and female sex drives are decidedly similar.

How is it measurable and verifiable?

Not that the ND bill is made on anything other than arbitrary bullshit.

Uh or not? The sperm duct is not the conduit for the sex hormones produced to go to the brain. That'll be the blood vessels, and if you sever those you have to take out the testes, otherwise you'll have a lovely sack of necrotic material before too long.

You can make banksia and gum tree seed pods crack open with a lighter. No catastrophic superfire necessary, though the adult trees themselves need burning (though not "catastrophically") every few years. Her point still stands. Temperate rainforests, like those in the RNP, have a lower fire...

Have.. have you read the Quran? (And no, no comparisons in the negative to the Bible necessary; it's just as violent, and I'm atheist anyway. Except when they're infidels? Mmmhmm.

Er, no. I did some fieldwork down there 2nd semester last year. It has temperate rainforest, which is pretty conventional, considering there used to be more of it than hot rainforests. *shrug*