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#2: Feb 15th 2017 at 1:34:46 PM
Aside: I've discovered and now love Crash Course through seeing links to its videos here.
That said, topics about the "value of life" always seem to devolve into anti-natalism and other forms of nihilistic argumentation, which we strictly forbid. No sense opening that can of worms again.
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This episode of Crash Course does a great job of presenting the moral and philosophical questions opened by such things as non-voluntary euthanasia, abortion, and assisted suicide, seeiking insights on what we actually value about life.
If we discover an unborn child is infected with Zika virus and will be born with microcephalia, disfigured and disabled mentally and physically, is it okay to force the parents to have it anyway? Assuming fetus personhood, is aborting such a fetus discrimination against the disabled? (Is it Nazi-like?) Assuming that life is sacred, does this entail that it is wrong to deny it on the grounds of its quality being below a given threshold, or the opposite?
Some people born disabled (even horribly so) or poor or orphan or unwanted are still glad to be alive. Knowing this, would it have been okay to abort them? And some people who are sick or in pain wish to die.
But what about unconscious people needing euthanasia? They aren't feeling pain. You aren't sparing them pain, or respecting their personal liberty. How to justify killing them off?
A lot of open questions here. A lot of uncertainty.
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