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Jay520 said:
Soleron said:

Let's rephrase this as something morally identical: he ingested a spider alien and now a huge spider alien egg is growing on his back.

Pretty sure it'd be OK to kill it then. From the description it's more like that than a "second head".

I don't think this is morally identical. In your scenario, the answer would be too easy. In mine, they may be more conflicted with an answer, because they don't want to end human life.

It's an abortion metaphor right? The juice drink is sperm, and the five months is pregnancy.

It's identical to spider alien if said spider alien is also concious. It's just unattractive.



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Soleron said:
Jay520 said:
Soleron said:

Let's rephrase this as something morally identical: he ingested a spider alien and now a huge spider alien egg is growing on his back.

Pretty sure it'd be OK to kill it then. From the description it's more like that than a "second head".

I don't think this is morally identical. In your scenario, the answer would be too easy. In mine, they may be more conflicted with an answer, because they don't want to end human life.

It's an abortion metaphor right? The juice drink is sperm, and the five months is pregnancy.

It's identical to spider alien if said spider alien is also concious. It's just unattractive.


It is unattractive so it would be even less likely that he would have even drank the juice in the first place. So even though the scenario is similar it is still quite different. Basically in most people's mind, Sex>Drink with head on shoulders> Drink with spider egg.



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What's the intelligence of this head? Is it already set after it was born overnight? Does it learn how to babble the first day and speak full sentences the next day?



no, this thread isnt about abortion, not at all



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Remove the head ofcourse.



Soleron said:

It's an abortion metaphor right? The juice drink is sperm, and the five months is pregnancy.

It's identical to spider alien if said spider alien is also concious. It's just unattractive.

There is a flaw on the logical structure of your argument. The inference it's structurally invalid.

By way of analogy you could argue if it's doable to kill the alien spider if it annoyed you, you can also kill a living person who does the same, and argue similarly ad infinitum.



 

 

 

 

 

it's not like abortion because the aborted baby wouldn't be concious yet, but the head would,so if it's intelligent enough to know it's dying and has the will to live, it should be a crime and everyone should wait the time to the head to get out of his body.



 

 

 

What if your new head is gay and your not?...Or vice versa..What if your gay and your new head is not?....Somehow chopping it off ethier way is a Hate Crime...



 



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