Abstract

2. I’ve never put forward a “definition of the individual as a discrete, self-reliant, self-conscious person with at least an equal store of goods as others.” Again, that would be an absurd position to hold. Being unable to walk, see, or hear does not mean that one is not an individual. 3. Nor do I hold that “protected personhood”— not my ex- pression, by the way—is a conditional category based on attri- butes “that are at least equal to those of the mundane norm.”.