In your family, what is something you were not expected to know about, but you found out anyway?

 

  A baby is a human being, not an “it”.
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"Congratulations Mrs. D. Your human being is a boy"!

 

  What sense does that make?

  “Your baby is a boy.”

  “However, she gave it the baby away . . . ”
  “However, she gave it the child away . . . ”
  “However, she gave it him or her away . . . ”

You said without mentioning any exceptions allowed that 'a baby is a human being'.

 

  That’s correct. A baby is a human being, and human beings are not referred to as “it”.  Animals and inanimate objects, sure, but people, no. Numerous people call babies “it”, yet do not do so when referring to older children nor to adults, so my question to them is what is the magical age or point in that baby‘s life where suddenly they stop using the word “it”?
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Maybe when they are toilet trained.

 

  Perhaps that makes sense to you, and that’s fine, you’re entitled to your own perspective. Personally, regardless of being even one minute old or at any other time throughout his or her life, I find it disrespectful and dismissive to call a baby “it”.
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As if the baby would care.

 

  As if I stated at any point in time that the baby would or would not care. 

  Even so, since you broached it, I’ll bite. Regardless of the baby even being cognizant of it, there are other people involved also, people who are cognizant. For instance, based on your stance here so far, it appears to be inconsequential to you if someone calls a baby “it”, and for the sake of argument, let’s say the baby in question is your child. If you don’t mind your child being called “it”, yet I do mind my child being called “it”, then even if or when the baby doesn’t care, I do. 

  Just because a baby is unaware of something is not the determining factor in whether or not that thing is wrong. 

  Wow, we’re getting into the philosophical here.

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Yes, be sure to notify all doctors not to ever again say to the new mom 'it's a boy' or 'it's a girl'.

Nowadays they already know.

'Zat right!?

Ooookaaaaay...    Evidently you don't know my family.  I've always known my siblings are extraterrestrials (although mom disagreed... well.. most of the time, anyway).  

 

  Are extraterrestrials human? If not, then we’re talking about two distinctly separate concepts here.
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Outside of myself, no one's ever met an extraterrestrial.  I had to grow up with some.  Let me tell you, they were beyond strange!   Tell me, what human can freeze a pillow simply by touching it?  What kind of human can pull their thumb  completely off ...and then instantly reattach it?  What kind of human can emit toxic fumes at will (and I'm not talking about flatulence)?  I can't even begin to tell you the things they did to Major Matt Mason...egad!  Even after a thorough searching of the house and yard, neither his head or helmet was never found (just his cracked faceplate).  To this very day the location of his head remains a mystery (I always suspected it was beamed back to their home planet for dissection).  I tried to say my so-called "siblings" were found under a rock (meteorite?), but mom kept insisting they weren't.  So tell me, what other reason could possibly account for all the bizarre things they did?  I tell you they were extra-extraterrestrials!


This post was edited by Shuhak at January 30, 2021 11:59 AM MST

I don't like that either.