“Hath not everyone hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as anyone else is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?” –The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.