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Re:Some People Who Appear to Be in a Coma May Be Conscious by sonthonax on Sunday October 23, 2022 @03:37AM (#33305290)
No, it’s petty minded high-school philosophy to pretend that starving a paraplegic is morally speaking better than euthanising them with morphine.

There are endless things that distance this from the trolley problem, but mainly starving someone to death isn’t inaction, it’s a conscious clinical choice.

It’s utterly bizarre in my mind that is what the USA settled on as a grotesque compromise. Particularly so because outside the medical setting this would still be homicide by starvation.

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Re:Some People Who Appear to Be in a Coma May Be Conscious by 93po on Sunday October 23, 2022 @03:36PM (#33309567)
Exactly. Having a duty of care for someone and deliberately not providing that care with the intention of killing them is making you just as complicit in their death as euthanasia.
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Re:Some People Who Appear to Be in a Coma May Be Conscious by sonthonax on Sunday October 23, 2022 @03:58PM (#33309748)
Furthermore it's not inaction, in order to starve someone to death you have to get a lawyer and a judge to sign the death warrant. Pretending this is ethical is palming off the moral responsibility to some medical-tech who refills the feeding tube.
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