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Just capitalism doing its thing
WHAT THE FUCK!
The amount of babies isn't the issue America, it's the fact that we can't afford them.
And that the government won't do shit-all to help them. A baby born to a corpse is not going to have a good life in America.
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I honestly don't see a problem with that, as long as the woman gave her consent while she was of sound mind. Surrogate pregnancy is already a fairly common thing; this is just extending it to after one is brain-dead.
Obviously if it's done nonconsensually that's an entirely different matter, and is a horrifying idea (imagine miraculously waking up from an 8 month coma only to find you're pregnant with someone else's child).
It's an okay, morally ambiguous policy if you reduce pregnancy to a completely autonomous process like pooping. Pregnancy involves medical visit, and a lot of "how do you feel?" moments that a braindead person is incapable of doing.
It's the same dismissive thinking that suggests a robot can be a fry cook, what happens when an oddly shaped food item gets in a gear and it spills oil on the floor, who's gonna clean it up?
It's the same dismissive thinking that suggests a robot can be a fry cook, what happens when an oddly shaped food item gets in a gear and it spills oil on the floor, who's gonna clean it up?
The cleansing power of fire, most likely.
Coma ≠ brain dead
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Literally the plot of Shinsekai Yori (don't watch Shinsekai Yori, it will fuck you up)
Also around Season 3 of Handmaid's Tale, with Janine.
To be fair to them, when the rat queen was fully conscious, she freely killed / maimed / raped her own kind.
I don't want to excuse Squealer's actions, any more than I would Hitler's, but I will say that he rightfully upset a horrific "natural order" likely imposed by earlier humans
My brother in christ, this is not OG sleeping beauty, wtf. How did they expect that conversation to go down?
"Yes, I know your daughter is brain dead, but good news, she will be able to breed for the nation! What? You don't like the idea of state sanctioned rape and forced breeding?" It baffles me that some people really just see women as a vessal. No thoughts on how horrific that would be for any woman going into the hospital (if something goes wrong, I don't even get a respectful death), and for their families should one of the worse case scenarios occur ("You can bury her after we've popped out a few wave slaves"). Not even thoughts on the children that would be produced by such horrors.
Literally anything than make the world a better place for people to raise children in.
I know forced sterilization is bad, but people that come up with opinions this psychotic...should not be allowed to procreate.
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I've been watching too many medical dramas and think that this would make a neat episode if done correctly. Like if a woman had agreed to be a surrogate for her gay brother and made it explicitly clear that she wanted it to occur even if she was in an accident and brain dead. There's a lot of moral issues and it would be interesting to see them play out in a fantasy universe.
I can't imagine a situation where this would be OK in real life, to be clear.
This was an episode of Grey's Anatomy. A pregnant woman is in a car crash and is brain dead, and her parents want to keep her on life support until the baby is born. I think in the end, they decided to let them both go.
Oh neat, ironically Grey's is what I've been binging - I must not be to that episode yet. I do think there's a difference, though, between keeping a pregnant woman's body alive to allow her baby to be born vs. impregnating a brain dead woman.
I must not be to that episode yet
Only 10,000 or so to go lol
Nice try Hideo Kojima. You won't be making the death stranding reality!
Oh, Brave New World!
Oh hey capitalism wants to create the Daemonculaba.
This is seriously fucked up, but I don't get the capitalism part of it?
They are proposing a human body factory for producing wage slaves.
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Isn't this just like organ donation, but instead of organ, its the entire body?
(I mean, provided, that the deceased has consented to this before dying.)
Gotta get that birthrate back up somehow, and having an equitable society obviously isn't an option
USA, where abortion is effectively illegal. ~~Went~~ Why can't adoption be a solution?
One step closer to a Brave New World
id love to keep it "boring"
the "interesting" parts of a dystopia arent usually very healthy for us...
IMO
We don't need more people in the world right now. We should be concentrating on figuring out how to agree on having and applying the best support for the ones we already have first.
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Name and shave the "academic"
The original "academic" is a philosophy professor, so unless you want to act like The Thought Police, then you shouldn't have any reason to be angry over this thought being thought.
Her actual paper also warns against the idea. The whole story was blown out of proportion by the media.
If you still want to shave her, you should probably ask for her consent.
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