No, you weren't arguing semantics. I was just throwing that as a catch-all for any dingbat who planned on waltzing over here and trying to smack me down because I gave two lines instead a fully-fledged philosophical treatise on the subject. No, you're cooler than that, worry not.
I don't believe in altruism.
Nor do I believe it's up to me to determine the rules for permission of discrimination (I would agree with you, but I'm sure there are some who would say that until you know a person from insemination 'till death, then you don't know enough to discriminate, but you can't ever do that so then you can't discriminate).
Nor do I believe it's up to me to determine how many characteristics it takes to define a person.
But that's simply what I believe.