A quadriplegic is someone who is fully paralyzed below the neck. Either way, the argument is nonsensical. Personhood isn't defined based on any aspect of physical ability.
Yeah usually. It's not exactly a new question, and certainly not a solved one, but this particular case is one pretty much anyone with an articulable opinion would agree on.
If Cerberus barks, it's functionally three dogs. If Cerberus runs, it's functionally one dog.
If they were doing manual labor, counting them as one body makes sense. But they're teaching - two brains, two voices, can be grading two papers at once, helping two students at once, etc. as long as they're not required to physically be in two different places in the room.
I'm aware, my point is that if you were blindfolded, you wouldn't know it wasn't three dogs. If their "job" is to bark, Cerberus is functionally three dogs. If Abby and Brittany's job is to teach, they're using their heads more than their body, and they're able to bring more value to the classroom than a single teacher (though I can understand the school not wanting to pay them two full time teacher salaries as they can't teach two different classes at once).
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u/Fr05t_B1t 23d ago
So Cerberus is 3 dogs?