Re: An abortion analogy
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So in this analogy, does the selection committee that picks who gets hooked up to the machine have any liability for picking people against their will?
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It won't be a committee. It's just a random selection process, more resembling a lottery. They have a diseased patient, and they have a pool of potential hosts. They randomly draw a qualified host and if it happens to be you, off you go.
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This is a very commonly used analogy, and most hardcore anti-abortionists will claim that you cannot remove yourself in this case.
However, an interesting corrolary, is suppose a condition of being saved by this machine is to consent to a random drawing when you are healthy. Of course, the pro-abortionists will still not like this comaprision because a fetus is not equivilent to a person with rights in their mind. So suppose you join a group that allows you to save someone else's fetus. You agree to give up 9 months of your life if chosen at random. You get picked. I see no rational argument for getting out of your own choice here.
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