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 Originally Posted by Greedo017
Originally Posted by pgil
you arent dead until your brain dies. death = brain death. if you dont have a working brain, you cant and wont live. if you dont have a brain at all, we have no qualms about killing you, just look at vegetables. if you are a bunch of cells without a brain you can be killed without ethical problems. unless you are a pythagorean or a vegan. but then you have bigger problems. its all about the brain people. how you argue against a brain based view of humanity i dont know, but would like to see.
Would a human being who was conscious, able to think, feel, reason, but they were born without a brain, not be a person?
A squirrel has a brain, but it is clearly not a person.
Maybe its not the brain itself that's important, but the abilities and properties that it gives us that are important?
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Just something else I thought of. Just what is a working brain, and when does a fetus have one?
This question doesn't really make sense. The brain is what controls how we think, feel, and reason. Even if we didn't call it a "brain" or it was divided into different body parts, the part(s) we had would still combine into what we call a brain. We aren't able to do these things without one.
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