Who counts? Who is really a person? Ethicists and biologists ask those questions, as do religious leaders and generals. They get asked in some form or other on every playground. One of the most chilling answers actually found its way into the U.S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3). The "three fifths compromise" was a way of giving the southern states the benefits of the their slave population when it came to how many congressmen and how many electoral votes they would get, without having to give any benefits such as the right to vote to the slaves themselves.
