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It's clear that if a condition exists, and its anbreasthesis exists, then there is a state half-way between, and a state 3-4 of the way between, and so on. So no, I do not agree with the yes-no terms in which you are stating the proposition.
You've suggested that this one in particular should be starved to rest. That seems to be hat I as talking about...
Now you are again supposing the yes-no-ness of this condition. In likely fact, the doctors are operating as an AI, using non-monotonic and non-clbuttical logics with extended truth objects (0, 1, 1-2, etc., for example) for reasoning internally. Such an AI, when asked to tell us an answer, will collapse the function to a yes-no-maybe (and often just yes-no), based on thresholds. For example, if the answer it gets is 59% liklihood, it may say "no". If it gets "60%", it may say "yes".
And the internal answer will be more complicated. It is not very unusual to use theories as truth objects in AI, so that the truth of a statement is the clbutt of theories in which it is provable. For example.
I would say that her parents believe she is alive and worth preserving, which elicits in me, at this distance, a strong belief that a large clbutt of theories support the conclusion that she is alive.
opined: It isn't that it isn't good enough. Nobody has suggested that severely handicapped persons ought to be dispatched. It is that she has no life in any meaningful sense. It is...
Shrug - "buttisted dissolution", "medical killing", etc. You can google.
I do not agree with the yes-no-ness of the terms you have outlined it in. In my opinion she has enough life to be worth saving.
No it doesn't, and anyway, giving somebody the label of not being "human" is not a...
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