Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Sue
I don't know whether to laugh or shake my head on this. This sounds like reincarnation
without having to enter another organism and they are making sure they can be
reincarnated.
Can't take credit for the psychic ability <bg>. I think this exercise came out of
discussions some of us were having, but sure enough the next edition of a sexuality
book
had one very similar. Guess social scientists minds run in the same direction at times
<g>
I think we are going to see a lot more of this type of questions being asked about the
role of technology in our lives. A lot of demand is being placed on having ethics
courses in all the colleges and making them a required course for many fields. I am
talking about in addition to the general philosophy course that looks at morality
issues.
jackief
jackief
Sue Hartigan wrote:
> Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi jackie:
>
> You got it. <BG> The idea is that someday they will be able to
> transplant the head onto a body where the person has died of some kind
> of brain damage, but the body is in perfect health.
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>
>
> I guess this is another case of psychic ability, on your part. :) The
> father is going to have to pay the child support, but it really brings
> medicine, law, and ethics to the forefront, IMO.
>
> Sue
> > Hi Sue
> >
> > Would love to visit but I think I'll pass on the frozen bodies, especially the
> > heads. What in the world are they going to do with the heads?? Fasten them on an
> > artificial body? Or on a human body that the head has been damaged? Oooh.
> >
> > The ironic thing is that we use an exercise in which the students have to discuss
> > the implications of a couple doing that very thing and then getting a divorce
> > before the baby is conceived and fight for custody. In the meantime the child is
> > being raised by a foster mother. Now, who should get custody--one of the donors,
> > the surrogate mother, the foster mother, or one of the ex-spouses? This was a
> > ficticious exercise--sounds like it really isn't so imaginary.
> >
> > jackief
>
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