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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 casual
by 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.