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To: TimF who wrote (126715)	10/23/2000 8:17:08 PM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579039

Tim, OT OT, Re: 2-year old Do you regard a 2 year old child's life to be less valuable then an adult's? Assuming we skip the pathlogical cases (neither adult nor child is terminally ill, the adult isn't a mass murderer, the adult has more than 10 years of life expectancy...), then: Yes. Don't you? Remember, in the 'game' you must choose one or the other. Would you really flip a coin? Doug p.s. If you asked about, say, generic 6-year-olds, I think it would be a much harder question. Probably worthy of a 'flip' in the absence of any other information. Why? I think consciousness is probably not fully developed at 2 years old. So, forced with a terrible choice, I'd spare the more highly conscious being. Along the lines of the justifications for animal experiements. Those people who buy into various mythologies about 'souls' and so forth are probably led to the coin-flip at the point they imagine this 'soul' has been granted to the organism. This is consistent with their 'beliefs'; however, it's unfortunate that those beliefs themselves are irrational, and lead them to make an incorrect ethical decision.