RE: Abortion/Consciousness/Life
July 20, 2014 at 11:00 am
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2014 at 11:11 am by Heywood.)
(July 20, 2014 at 10:13 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(July 20, 2014 at 9:51 am)Heywood Wrote: A person under general anesthesia isn't conscious either. Would it be okay for a scorned woman to kill her cheating husband while he is under general anesthesia? Of course not. Given time that person under general anesthesia will become conscious and live a life. A person under general anesthesia has a future expectation of person-hood and that is what we give moral protection. A brain dead person has no future expectation of person-hood which is why many don't find it immoral to simply pull the plug. A fetus on the other hand does have a future expectation of person-hood which is why it is wrong to kill it.
A person under anesthesia has a history of being, ya know, a person... with a personality... emotions, thoughts, memories, etc. etc.
A fetus does not.
Seriously, Christians come up with the most asinine comparisons to make their points. One even told me this week that abortion is worse than slavery.
Smh.
A brain dead person has a history of being too.....yet the reason you pull the plug has nothing to do with that history of person-hood but rather the lack of expectation of future person-hood....or future being. The fact that we pull the plug on brain dead people is evidence that a history of person-hood....a history of being....isn't what confers moral protection.
The OP is making the claim that pro-lifers are inconsistent because they are willing to pull the plug on an unconscious brain dead person but find it morally reprehensible to abort an unconscious fetus. I am showing that it isn't inconsistent....and in fact the opposite is true. When you take the position that future expectation of person-hood is what is deserving of moral protection everything makes sense. It is okay to pull the plug on a brain dead person because there is no expectation of future person-hood. It is wrong to kill an person under general anesthesia because there is a future expectation of person-hood.
The OP's fixation with consciousness actually causes inconsistencies. If it is okay to kill a fetus because it is unconscious.....why then is it wrong to kill unconscious sleeping human being?
