Or allowing someone to go long enough without air that they cannot be resuscitated.
This is less of a single qualitative distinction than you would think, given the various degrees of neurological damage that can make a person more or less the same person that they were before.
Good point… you are right about that. It would be more of a matter of degrees of personhood, especially if you had advanced medical technologies available such as neural implants.
This is less of a single qualitative distinction than you would think, given the various degrees of neurological damage that can make a person more or less the same person that they were before.
Good point… you are right about that. It would be more of a matter of degrees of personhood, especially if you had advanced medical technologies available such as neural implants.