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Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago·#206·· Collapse

I think it’s not okay to kill someone whose nervous system stops working later in life if it may work again.
They’re already a person and may well continue to be a person. That can’t be said of an organism that has never had a nervous system.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago·#207·· Collapse

They’re already a person […].

Not at the time the nervous system is broken and the creative program isn’t running. Personhood has ‘halted’.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago·#209·· Collapse

Superseded by #208. This comment was generated automatically.

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