Comment on This was inevitable.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 months agoIt’s not an equation to be worked out. It simply boils down to respecting the wishes of a currently conscious being.
Comment on This was inevitable.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 months agoIt’s not an equation to be worked out. It simply boils down to respecting the wishes of a currently conscious being.
Saeculum@hexbear.net 6 months ago
If I had come about through the unwilling merger of two people, and my death could restore those people, it’s probably ethical to kill me to make it happen.
I don’t think it’s necessarily reasonable to call the two component people dead either. Death is a not a particularly well defined term, but we don’t tend to apply it to people who might get better.
The knowledge that you live in a society where you could be legally killed at any point for the greater good, and the resultant fear and uncertainty probably would cause more harm overall than doing so could actually alleviate.
m_r_butts@kbin.social 6 months ago
If you consent to it, it's ethical. It is not otherwise.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 months ago
What you are saying is it is ethical to kill a being that has specifically said it doesn’t want to die, in order save two others.
Saeculum@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Same reason it’s ethical to kill billionaires and eat the rich.