| dsgrue3 said: I thought I made it perfectly clear, but I guess some people struggle with understanding the difference between a confined analysis and an extrapolation to real world scenarios. This is not meant to be a comprehensive position on how to address vegetative states. It's simply addressing the similarity of the electrocortical activity between someone in a vegetative state and a fetus around 20 weeks. You're making it into something it isn't. I've made no comments about specific scenarios because I wasn't addressing it initially, nor do I care to. |
Either case, as a confined analysis or an extrapolation... it's simply wrong.
The fact that you aren't willing to make a comment on the specific scenario pretty much accurately shows that. (Not to mention the fact that Khan specifically was using sentience as his barometer, so the coma question is a completely accurate question... he was directly saying it was the same... because of the lack of sentience. Reread what Khan said.)
I mean, maybe it just stems from an ignorance of what a vegatative state is... but while a vegetative state is worse then a coma. It's actually a state where someone has partially recovered from a coma. Someone in a vegatative state is more "alive" then someone in a coma.
The reason doctors generally think it's "ethical" to take someone off life support in a vegatative state isn't because they don't have brain functions. It's because the chances of them regaining brain functions are so so slim (Past a month) that it's deemed a lost cost.
The main problem with hypercharged issues like this is most people don't actually think about them beyond a currsory initial thought and what they're told.
