Now, if you asked the question would I keep her from having plastic surgery if the only way for her to obtain it was taking the skin off a living person and killing that person to restore her face, the answer would yes, I would keep her from that surgery.
I assume, then, that if no one else's skin was required, you would not expect her to accept the full consequences for what she did. Well, of course you wouldn't. You'd see that she took responsibility for what she did, was appropriately remorseful, and then you would do everything you could to assure that her life wasn't ruined over it.
Thanks for answering my (stupid) question. Sort of.
What it "all boils down to" is that you and I have differing valuations of an embryo. You're willing to do tolerate lots of collateral damage to save that embryo and I'm prepared to tolerate little or none. Isn't what these arguments are always about, the value of the embryo? Now if you'd just acknowledge that saving that embryo has costs other than to the reckless woman who needs to be punished, we could at least agree to disagree. Failing that, you are the one someplace out in the ether. |
