I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia
I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24230552
Just capitalism doing its thing
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I honestly don't see a problem with that, as long as the woman gave her consent while she was of sound mind. Surrogate pregnancy is already a fairly common thing; this is just extending it to after one is brain-dead.
Obviously if it's done nonconsensually that's an entirely different matter, and is a horrifying idea (imagine miraculously waking up from an 8 month coma only to find you're pregnant with someone else's child).
It's an okay, morally ambiguous policy if you reduce pregnancy to a completely autonomous process like pooping. Pregnancy involves medical visit, and a lot of "how do you feel?" moments that a braindead person is incapable of doing.
It's the same dismissive thinking that suggests a robot can be a fry cook, what happens when an oddly shaped food item gets in a gear and it spills oil on the floor, who's gonna clean it up?
It's the same dismissive thinking that suggests a robot can be a fry cook, what happens when an oddly shaped food item gets in a gear and it spills oil on the floor, who's gonna clean it up?
The cleansing power of fire, most likely.
Coma ≠ brain dead
True, but you can't always be sure someone is truly brain-dead.
Two responses, channeling the defenseless future conscripts forced into this world literally to fill a “recruitment” quota:
“Don’t build a person if you do not intend to be their ally.” — The Terraformers (2023)
and
“No! No! No! No! No!” — Team Four Star
Well, if surrogacy is a fairly common thing, surely it has to be ethical. What a logical conclusion.