(January 6, 2015 at 12:37 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(January 6, 2015 at 11:16 am)Heywood Wrote: Sorry dummy, since you can't notice something when you are dead, you can't notice being dead before you are dead.
You can notice something before you're dead if the state you were in prior to death was conscious life, which fetuses are not.
But then, I suspect this is another one of those times where you're trying to crow over some sophistic word choice, rather than actually follow the thread of the argument.
Then I would say to JuliaL, "I'd be sad if someone chopped you up into little pieces while you were under general anesthesia".
Whether or not a human being notices something or not doesn't determine if they've been morally wronged or not.
The "notice" element isn't important at all.