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why not just perform euthanasia and focus your energy into raising the healthy child?

• perlgeek 14y ago
  Because parents love their children, even if they aren't healthy.
• diaphoros 14y ago
  ^ this. How is keeping this profoundly sick & disabled child alive not abuse?
• snowwrestler 14y ago
  Ethical objections aside, clearly he doesn't want to do that.
  • sgtgrumbles 14y ago
    I believe luminaobscura is referring to the following position: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2012/03/after_birth_abortion_the_pro_choice_case_for_infanticide_.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_natur...
• perlgeek 14y ago
  It took me a while to realize what exactly it was that disturbed me about your question. I don't have any problems with talking about euthanasia, but the casualness with which you mention it shocks me. Would you "just" kill your son if he wasn't healthy enough?
  • luminaobscura 14y ago
    "just" refers to easiness of the alternative route, nothing more. i didn't mean it should be an easy decision.(I am not a native English speaker.) I realize that this is a very painful situation for the family. regarding your question, there are two different scenarios: 1- my son reaches the necessary neural development stage so that he is conscious, self-aware, interacts with other humans etc. then we can't kill him unless he requests it. 2- he has never reached that stage so he has not any personality, memory etc. then we can kill him. because there is not really a "son" here, not yet. in fact, we humans continously kill pigs, dolphins and other animals that are more intelligent and conscious than a newborn.