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The beginning and end of human life: the view from Australia : Comments
By Peter Sellick, published 29/12/2021The arguments around VAD are like those around abortion. Both end a life, and both are justified by the assertion of human rights.
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Dear Yuyutsu,
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You wrote :
« The law of gravity produces forces of gravity.
The effects of these forces can be countered by other competing forces, but that has no effect on the law of gravity itself, which is never broken »
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The way I see it, Yuyutsu is more like somebody breaking the speed limit on the highway. Even though he/she breaks the law by driving his/her car above the speed limit, as you say : “it has no effect on the law”. But that does not alter the fact that the driver has broken the law.
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« Are you then suggesting that no laws existed (including the law of gravity) before there were people to be inspired? »
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That’s correct, Yuyutsu. Laws are not defined by nature. They are defined by human beings who observe natural phenomena, certain of which inspire them to posit either a physical “law of nature” or a philosophical “natural law” (as I explained in my previous post).
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« Please observe that statements about what you HAVE tell nothing about who you ARE »
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That’s also correct, Yuyutsu. That is why I declared : “I see no reason to believe that I am anything other than my body (that of a human being).
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« Your respected EBTDYFO is what it is, it is human, it is part of nature, thus has no will of its own »
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We already debated the question of “free will” quite extensively on this thread, Yuyutsu, commencing on page 4.
Allow me simply to recall what I wrote on page 6 :
« I don't agree with your deterministic theory of human behaviour. As I indicated in my previous post, it may have been plausible 5 to 7 million years ago when we separated from our common ancestor with the chimpanzees, but it is certainly not plausible today. Unlike our cousins, the chimpanzees, we have since made tremendous progress and evolved exponentially due to the exceptional development of our human brain.
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(Continued …)
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