What sorts of non-human things might count as persons

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Question: Write a coherent essay on personhood.

What sorts of non-human things might count as persons? What sorts of human things might fail to count as persons?

If non-person humans can be killed without dire moral consequences, then what, if anything, gives them the right to not be killed? (You could think in utilitarian terms, of course.)

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