RE: To abort or not to abort
March 26, 2014 at 10:55 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2014 at 11:04 pm by Heywood.)
(March 26, 2014 at 10:44 pm)Beccs Wrote: Okay, your definition of what makes a person is seriously skewed. A person asleep or unconscious is STILL a person. Whereas a person who is braindead is not since they have no potential to return to consciousness.
I really don't see how you can compare the two.
Beccs, ask yourself what things a being must be capable of in order to qualify as a person. If you are honest, a human being under general anesthesia is not capable of those things. They were in the past....They will be(mostly likely) in the future.....but while under GA...they are not capable of those things.
Let me ask you this. Do you consider cryogenically frozen "people" persons? Would you change your mind if it was shown that in the future science would be capable of bringing these dead people back to life?