RE: Abortion is morally wrong
June 21, 2014 at 2:28 am
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2014 at 2:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 21, 2014 at 2:22 am)Heywood Wrote: I'm sure she could be prosecuted for property damage or desecrating a grave site. However, is it a more egregious offense that she destroys a frozen body that has some, albeit small, expectation of future life as opposed to a body buried in a grave that has no reasonable expectation at future life?Some would say that no corpses are "left to rot in the ground"
The penalty for destroying a corpse frozen in the hope it can be revived later should be greater than destroying a corpse left to rot in the ground.....in my opinion.
-which might explain why we show such deference to a pile of molecules as to make it law in every state that you can;t screw with them. It's like writing a law stating that you can;t stir a pile of leafs in the forest.
We don't prosecute for murder based on somethings "expectation of life", but rather, the actuality of that life. You can;t "murder" something that might one day bre alive. For it to be murder..that thing has to have been alive right up to the point where you snuffed it (or set events in such a manner as to lead to the same inevitably). Frozen bodies simply don;t qualify...and that much is probably layed out in their contracts - just as info for the purchaser of the service...to cover the cryo companies ass when they eventually pull the plug on these dupes. If/when we reach a point where it becomes viable..it could be handled under the same law as comatose patients. Their contract is essentially a living will, that holds so long as the agreement by the purchaser/funds do.
(the crux of this...and we could go on forever..is that secular law and legality has far surpassed morality, whether secular or otherwise - in usefulness and utility. In fact, if we were to rewrite our moral codes from scratch with well thought out and well presented arguments..we would probably end up with something that isn;t altogether different from, say, georgia's state codes. I'd be willing to lay money on that bet, anyway, give it some thought)
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