Originally Posted by
Rajagra
We already kill innocent people (in comas) in order to harvest their organs for transplant. The argument is that their lives aren't worth living if they are going to spend every moment of the rest of their lives in a catatonic state; they have no chance of recovery; and it costs lots of money to keep them alive, so let's be practical and do something useful. Let's invent a term ("brain dead") to make the process sound more palatable.
If it's OK to kill and harvest innocent people, why shouldn't the same be done to violently insane people who have no chance of recovery AND have killed others? Their lives aren't worth living if they are going to spend every moment of the rest of their lives sedated/strapped down/in a straightjacket; they have no chance of recovery; and it costs lots of money to keep them alive, so let's be practical and do something useful. Let's invent a term ("mind death"?) to make the process sound more palatable.