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  • BigToe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s the ad hominem. Out of curiosity how do you determine if someone or something has a consciousness, how do you feel about people on life support that are clinically brain dead? How about people in a coma?

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      1 year ago

      Not a great argument. If they’re brain dead then correct, they’re no longer sentient. Therefore I wouldn’t disagree with pulling the plug at all.

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        1 year ago

        If I was braindead with no hope of recovery then I would seriously hope my family pulled the plug. It wouldn’t be me anymore and I would hate to be a drain on resources for nothing.

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      That’s a great point about people in comas. It should be considered murder to pull the plug on a comatose loved one. They’re still a living person, and it’s disgusting we get to just murder them when they still have so much potential. Sure, it’s expensive to keep someone monitored at a hospital, and there’s no guarantee they’ll come out of it, but they’re still a living person.