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[quote=""His Noodly Appendage""]Of course, it does depend. Sickle-cell anaemia is a case in point. If you get a copy of the gene from both parents, you'll live a short and miserable life. But if you only get one copy, you get virtual immunity to malaria. In some parts of the worl...

[quote=""Revolutionary""]What if he wanted to kill him in defense of the entire galaxy or whatever, not out of hate?[/quote] If he were to just walk into the room and say "you're an unacceptable risk to the galaxy. I'm going to kill you now." ... that just doesn't seem ...

If Mace Windu were to kill Sidious out of revenge/malice, or, really any reason except self-defense or defense of someone else, he would be putting himself in danger of falling to the dark side of the Force. So, while it may be morally justifiable, it would be a bad idea for Mace.

[quote=""faithless""]again the logic here fails, 1) you can't define long-term and 2) even if you could define long-term it is still not considered criteria in any social contract, a successful society would depend on protecting and prolonging the lives of all it's members at all...

[quote=""faithless""]FTR, at the present time in history, there is no chance of survival for any living being , we will die (yes I admit there are promising studies being done prevent death and I'm all for it, but right now nothing can keep you alive forever) so we can see that y...

[quote=""faithless""]what do you base your judgements on? how do you prove what is wrong? these are serious questions I ask of you...[/quote] Why is abandoning a baby in a room to die wrong? Because it is a human being and deserves to die with a little dignity. If there's nothing...

If there's no real hope of survival, then heroic measures should not be taken, BUT the preemie should still receive palliative care. Abandoning it in a room is just wrong and inhumane.

[quote=""fool""]A) What is a person?
A human
B) What is it about a person that makes it immoral to kill one?
Because you end their life.[/quote]

"Different languages" it is, then.

[quote=""Y.B""]You've seen embryos no bigger than a stick of butter, not babies . They're not babies until they're born.[/quote] Barely-viable preemies can be pretty small. "Stick of butter" small? That's pushing it. [quote=""fool""]Embryos can come ...