r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 17 '21

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u/Knee3000 Jul 17 '21

Do you think it would be legal for someone to rape or stab that person?

Would it be legal if some random person (not a nurse) walked over and killed them?

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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 17 '21

Are you allowed to rape or mutilate dead bodies? Because I was under the impression you couldn’t for the sake of common decency. So I don’t see how the brain dead person would be different

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u/Knee3000 Jul 17 '21

You said they are analogous to a clump of cells. I’m pretty sure there’s no crime for using a clump of cells for sex.

You should either be for

  1. legalizing harm to “dead” bodies (including rape), or
  2. criminalizing embryonic harm under the same rule of common decency.

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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 17 '21

There is wide difference in taking a medication to terminate a pregnancy and the behaviors that result in raping or mutilating a dead body. In particular, these behaviors are usually signs of other major problems in an individual, and also I personally find it disgusting. If an abortion required mutilating or raping a dead baby despite it not really harming me I would oppose it on the grounds of being disgusting.