Re:The Texas Flooding Tragedy: Could It Have Been Avoided?
by msgodel on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @10:50AM
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>Lump of cells
If you're going to be reductionist you should at least be consistently reductionist otherwise you're just making noise. The same argument can be used to justify any murder.
Re:The Texas Flooding Tragedy: Could It Have Been Avoided?
by sofixa on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @10:54AM
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Non viable non functional non sentient lump of cells, that clear enough?
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Re:The Texas Flooding Tragedy: Could It Have Been Avoided?
by sofixa on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @11:05AM
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You think mentally limited people aren't sentient nor viable? Yeah, you sound like a Nazi (T4 programme).
Re:The Texas Flooding Tragedy: Could It Have Been Avoided?
by msgodel on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @11:06AM
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I'd like to hear your definition of sentience. It sounds like it's an unusual one.
Re:The Texas Flooding Tragedy: Could It Have Been Avoided?
by sofixa on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @11:19AM
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> Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations.[3] It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes. Some writers define sentience exclusively as the capacity for valenced (positive or negative) mental experiences, such as pain or pleasure.[4]
> Sentience is an important concept in ethics, as the ability to experience happiness or suffering often forms a basis for determining which entities deserve moral consideration, particularly in utilitarianism.[5]
For reference, a lump of cells part of fetus isn't sentient in any sense of that word you could imagine. A braindead woman being kept alive as an incubator for a fetus isn't sentient either. A mentally/developmentally challenged person is sentient.
Unless it's regulation around one's body, then they absolutely love it to the bone. Who can go in which restroom? What genitals you can have to be able to participate in what sporting events? What to do with a lump of cells trying to kill you? What to do with a lump of cells that has killed you? They have very strong opinions on that they will make laws for.