RE: Religion says we're rebelling against God; Science finds differently.
September 17, 2012 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2012 at 2:13 pm by TaraJo.)
(September 17, 2012 at 1:39 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:(September 16, 2012 at 1:37 pm)TaraJo Wrote: What if they cloned an exact copy of your body except that they built this one with no brain (to remove many of the ethical concerns) and this one had a fully functional female reproductive system. Would you allow a transplant in this case?
No, I would not. And I don't care if a clone *did* have a brain... it isn't ethics stopping me from what I desire. I would never recognize that body as 'me', and I would always be (however irrationally) terrified at the very idea of it.
But that invites new questions.
I'm going to assume you would also object to having your body replaced, piece by piece, until none of the parts left were from your original body, correct? I'm also assuming that you would be ok with routine transplant surgeries such as a heart transplant or a kidney transplant, right? So the question falls somewhere in between the two: at what point have you had so many body parts transplanted onto you that you stop being 'you?'
I took philosophy class last semester and they had a name for this specific dilemma, I just don't remember what it was; I blame my boring-as-all-fuck philosophy professor.
EDIT-Found it! If you want to look up more on that problem, look up Ship of Theseus.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama