Ibrahim wrote:Enki wrote:I think the more important question is, "Can flesh persisting in a vegetative state be considered a 'person'?" Is there personhood in the absence of consciousness?
This is the crux of it to me. What is the benefit of keeping someone alive in this situation? What is particularly odd to me is that it is overwhelmingly religious people who support using medical science to keep souls tethered to broken bodies indefinitely for some undisclosed purpose, dressed up as the "sanctity of life."
The almost certainly criminal conduct of the parents is a secondary issue. They have been charged and will be prosecuted, which is sufficient. While it is always disgusting to read about, a criminal prosecutor or anybody working in family law will tell you that parents abuse or kill their children with depressing regularity.
I don't see what "mutliculturalism" has to do with the case, or why it has been mentioned.
Thank You Very Much for your post, Enki & Ibrahim.
What is particularly odd to me is that it is overwhelmingly religious people who support using medical science to keep souls tethered to broken bodies indefinitely for some undisclosed purpose, dressed up as the "sanctity of life."
Not so odd when sometimes they come back..... Remembering a fireman in a coma for years who came back briefly before dying for the final time..........
As to the religious aspect........ If you are a believer in an eternal Hell.......... Any chance to get right with G_d is priceless........
Even if not eternal........ It can seem that way....... Sort of like the timer on the toothbrush......
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The almost certainly criminal conduct of the parents is a secondary issue.
Really?
Secondary????
In that case is the death of ME people killed by drone & other Uz military attacks
secondary to fact that the money could be better spent here at home on repairing bridges or on a robust Space Program with a Meteor Protection Program......
They have been charged and will be prosecuted, which is sufficient.
Which is why it is NOT a secondary issue........ If the facts are as they seem someone needs to get Life WithOut Parole (LWOP).....
that parents abuse or kill their children with depressing regularity.
But we aren't as bad as some other social predators like Lions for instance..........
And IMVHO we may be better than we have been..... Remembering the Romans and their high rates of infanticide... For that matter a Roman paterfamilias could legally kill his grown children....
I don't see what "mutliculturalism" has to do with the case, or why it has been mentioned.
The letter "M" as in Mosque, Muslim, and Multicultural.......
And more sadly in this case, Murder.........
Muslims aren't the the only ones to do this sort of thing (see above) but Honor Killing has been a recent dank and drowning topic in cool Canada.........
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They all got only a rather lenient 25 years....... IMVHO LWOP would have been more appropriate...........
Actually the mosque was rather brave to allow such notorious non members, though presumably Muslims, to have the funeral there...... And actually attend........
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