1st April 2005, 11:47 PM
The circumstances by which someone is created are irrelevant.
Anyway, let me first say this. Under this situation, we do not know enough at all to make any sort of opinion on THIS particular case. We can state what we believe about general cases where we can just come up with the circumstances ourselves, but not a real one we don't know the details about.
So, let's just go ahead and debate the concept of killinatin' people while they sleep.
If the brain is still alive, the person is alive. If the brain is dead, the person is dead. That's the way I think... no... that's what medical science KNOWS... is true. Basically, under the situation in which someone's brain is dead, nothing more than an empty head, keeping the body alive is not keeping the person alive. Any action you take on the body does nothing at all to the person. Keeping the blood flowing is little more than a form of preserving the dead. It's really no different than mummification. I wouldn't say that putting a mummy into a moist environment is akin to killing them "more", because they are dead, long dead, and that's only an action of preserving as much of the body as possible. Here's what I suggest in cases of brain dead people on "life" support. They are plants, harvest them! Let's start giving people who's brains are still alive, and thus ARE alive, a fighting chance by harvesting organs, bit by bit, until there's nothing but an empty sack of skin left on that bed.
Some guy listening to this radical suggestion by a mad scientist: That's... that's MONSTROUS!
DJ: Yeah, I know.
Anyway, let me first say this. Under this situation, we do not know enough at all to make any sort of opinion on THIS particular case. We can state what we believe about general cases where we can just come up with the circumstances ourselves, but not a real one we don't know the details about.
So, let's just go ahead and debate the concept of killinatin' people while they sleep.
If the brain is still alive, the person is alive. If the brain is dead, the person is dead. That's the way I think... no... that's what medical science KNOWS... is true. Basically, under the situation in which someone's brain is dead, nothing more than an empty head, keeping the body alive is not keeping the person alive. Any action you take on the body does nothing at all to the person. Keeping the blood flowing is little more than a form of preserving the dead. It's really no different than mummification. I wouldn't say that putting a mummy into a moist environment is akin to killing them "more", because they are dead, long dead, and that's only an action of preserving as much of the body as possible. Here's what I suggest in cases of brain dead people on "life" support. They are plants, harvest them! Let's start giving people who's brains are still alive, and thus ARE alive, a fighting chance by harvesting organs, bit by bit, until there's nothing but an empty sack of skin left on that bed.
Some guy listening to this radical suggestion by a mad scientist: That's... that's MONSTROUS!
DJ: Yeah, I know.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)