No, no I'm not. Your original comment was about the rape of someone in a vegetative state. Someone who is brain dead is not the same as someone who is in a vegetative state. People in vegetative states have brain activity, though it is low. They may be able to wake up one day, and it's hard to decide to allow them to…

*shrug* Don't ask, and you shan't receive. Ask in a stupid and confrontational manner, and you might. I'm not stopping you or anyone else from being outraged on behalf of a dead body, despite thinking that the outrage would be better used on behalf of the living and murdered.

Actually, just for funzies (and because watching code compile is boring) I looked it up. If she is brain dead, she is legally dead. I don't think they'd charge me with anything if they weren't being dumb about foetal rights. Well, maybe they'd charge me for messing with a dead body, pretty sure we do have some laws…

Hm... I'd be charged with murder if I were to end her life. This is probably true, although it can't be entirely true or organ donation would be illegal. From what I understand, were I in Ireland, I would also be charged with murder if I were to end the life of her fetus. Does the law being so make either of these…

Only brain dead? It's the only dead that really counts.

"She is BRAIN dead."

Yeah, it's weird. I don't pretend to really understand the religious side of things, especially when it's a theocratic government thing. I've always thought it was a little odd, personally. Although, as I recall from long ago conversations at Catholic school (which, granted, was Canada-Catholic), the Church doesn't…

Yes. I do hope they win their case, even if I cannot personally get worked up over it. :)

Only because you assked for a chart. Don't ask for things you don't want, I suppose.

Would you like to know who I feel is deserving of MY outrage? Well, alright.

Oh, I do feel sorry for her family, they have lost a daughter. But not for her. She's gone. I don't think of her as a person because she's dead. (I also don't think of the fetus as a person because it's not alive.) A fetus should not have rights, nor should a dead body. Living people should have rights, and those are…

Why should anyone in their right mind be incensed about that? o.o

Actually, you do have to understand why someone might value the dead in order to empathize. I sympathize, I am sorry for the way they feel, but I do not empathize.

Why can't they move on? She's dead. A burial isn't going to change that. A cremation isn't going to change that. Blood circulation isn't going to change that. She's dead and what happens to her body really is unimportant. She's not in suspended animation, she's dead. A while back, people on gawker tried to tell me the…

Yes. It's a good reason to take her off. I'm not arguing in favor of keeping her on for the sake of the "kid", it's more that I think there are better and more important battles to fight.

Eh, people are all way too concerned over dead bodies, so no, I can't really drum up enough empathy for the family to be really incensed.

"Dead woman's body kept in semi-working condition because of status as incubator."

Yeah? And what if the children involved 'consented' so there was no more harm than regular porn? Oh, children can't consent? Well, that's kind of a moral judgement right there. (One I agree with, but still, the required age is absolutely based on societal norms and morality. We can and do legislate some forms of…

I'd agree with you on most of that, but maybe we can say that crossing state lines should require it. Although, to be honest, I'd never have thought you could even get a cab to take you that far in the first place!

"If you don't like child porn and it's offensive to you, then you don't buy it!" I think most people would agree that that's a stupid thing to say.