Compare And Contrast John A. Perry

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It is generally believed that human is a person merely after one is born even though babies cannot speak using a language and think deeply. In contrast, John A. Perry and Erna A. Perry do not think that an infant is human because babies have not developed their distinctive personality yet. They believe that to become a person, one should develop his or her unique and distinctive personality through maturation and socialization. Moreover, those two components of the process of becoming a person are interdependent in that without social interaction, people cannot undergo physical development normally, and vice versa. For example, a boy who is bullied from other students may grow as a short and thin man since he would not want to go outside of