9th October 2005, 12:00 AM
Don't assume too much about me.
I will say that if the child says they would have prefered to die, then so be it, but at least it was their own choice. I certainly won't AID them in that though.
Assisted suicide... I really don't approve of suicide because it is someone giving up on the only chance they have. However, if I can't convince someone, and outride stopping them in progress doesn't seem to prevent them from doing it again, all I can say is, do it in a way that doesn't traumatize hundreds of people or endanger anyone's life.
But yes, in the case wherein it really is either one specifically or both die, yeah you should be pragmatic. However, I was debating a very rare if not unheard of scenario in which it is EITHER one life OR the other.
In terrible cases like rape, I think that the solution can be found in potential scientific development. We already know a system can be developed to support a growing, living human for 9 months because it exists in humans. The idea is to somehow replicate it. If that can be done, then in all cases of rape, the mother could instead have their child supported in a lab somewhere, the way mother nature intended.
Robot: SLEEP LITTLE DUMPLING! I HAVE REPLACED YOUR MOTHER!
That's just adorable, isn't it?
I will say that if the child says they would have prefered to die, then so be it, but at least it was their own choice. I certainly won't AID them in that though.
Assisted suicide... I really don't approve of suicide because it is someone giving up on the only chance they have. However, if I can't convince someone, and outride stopping them in progress doesn't seem to prevent them from doing it again, all I can say is, do it in a way that doesn't traumatize hundreds of people or endanger anyone's life.
But yes, in the case wherein it really is either one specifically or both die, yeah you should be pragmatic. However, I was debating a very rare if not unheard of scenario in which it is EITHER one life OR the other.
In terrible cases like rape, I think that the solution can be found in potential scientific development. We already know a system can be developed to support a growing, living human for 9 months because it exists in humans. The idea is to somehow replicate it. If that can be done, then in all cases of rape, the mother could instead have their child supported in a lab somewhere, the way mother nature intended.
Robot: SLEEP LITTLE DUMPLING! I HAVE REPLACED YOUR MOTHER!
That's just adorable, isn't it?
"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)