hey, i'm leading somewhere, but i gotta make sure i feed the rope to the proper length. however, you're telling me that i'm too caught up in semantics out of one side of your mouth, and you're lecturing me -on- the semantics and telling me that they're essential to our conversation out of the other, and i'm thinking that my whole tack has been derailed by completely unanticipated CRAZY.
but let's continue on and pretend that the above never happened. explain to me the specific criteria that separate homo sapiens from other living things, in wholly objective terms, such that the differentiation is necessary when considering the act of terminating a "life". no homo sapiens == humans false tautologies, please, and let's stay away from citing the dictionary, since we've taken semantics off the table, here!