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> So, are trans folks immoral? Yes. > Organ transplants? OK, as long as they were taken from someone who was actually dead. Not all organs can be taken afte
by slumdev 5y ago
> So, are trans folks immoral?
Yes.
> Organ transplants?
OK, as long as they were taken from someone who was actually dead. Not all organs can be taken after death. In these cases, the transplant surgeon ends the donor's life in the process of harvesting.
> Prosthetics?
OK.
- kaba0 5y agoIs biological death the same as clinical one? Should someone be resurrected?
- slumdev 5y agoDeath is irreversible, but our understanding of it keeps improving. At one point, pulmonary arrest was considered death. Then, cardiac arrest. Now, we use the cessation of brain activity as an approximation, but there have been plenty of cases of patients with zero brain activity making full recoveries. The best definition of death is probably information-theoretic death. But that's not something we know how to measure (yet), so the organ harvests continue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death