You are knocked unconscious and kidnapped. When you wake you find your circulatory system is plugged into the body of a sickly writer. The police have apprehended the kidnappers. They were followers of the writer who were trying to keep him alive. You are now free to go but you are told that if you unplug yourself, the writer will die. Only if you remain hooked up to the writer for many months does the writer have any chance of survival.
What do you do?
A woman is raped. She discovers that she is pregnant. Her choice is to have an abortion or to bring the fetus to term.
[quote=“heimuoshu”]You are knocked unconscious and kidnapped. When you wake you find your circulatory system is plugged into the body of a sickly writer. The police have apprehended the kidnappers. They were followers of the writer who were trying to keep him alive. You are now free to go but you are told that if you unplug yourself, the writer will die. Only if you remain hooked up to the writer for many months does the writer have any chance of survival.
What do you do?[/quote]
Find a new writer, because this story is nonsensical.
[quote]A woman is raped. She discovers that she is pregnant. Her choice is to have an abortion or to bring the fetus to term.
[quote=“heimuoshu”]You are knocked unconscious and kidnapped.
[…]
You are now free to go but you are told that if you unplug yourself, the writer will die. Only if you remain hooked up to the writer for many months does the writer have any chance of survival.
What do you do?[/quote]Maximally: give the docs an opportunity – a few days – to sort out another solution. Then unplug.
[quote=“heimuoshu”]A woman is raped. She discovers that she is pregnant. Her choice is to have an abortion or to bring the fetus to term.
What should she do?[/quote]She ought to be guided by her conscience. It’s her choice.
OK, aside from this being pretty much the most over-reachingly retarded scenario since Tigerman gibbering on about his dog fucking time traveling and voting :loco: , I reckon that the dude sharing my bloodstream would be begging for a disconnect after a single Wednesday night at the OK Corral.
And sorry, what was the significance of him being a writer anyway?
[quote=“the chief”]OK, aside from this being pretty much the most over-reachingly retarded scenario since Tigerman gibbering on about his dog fucking time traveling and voting :loco: , I reckon that the dude sharing my bloodstream would be begging for a disconnect after a single Wednesday night at the OK Corral.
And sorry, what was the significance of him being a writer anyway?[/quote]
There is no significance.
The point is that these two scenarios are identical. A crime was commited and the victim is now in a situation where they have to make a moral choice. You can not insist on keeping the baby because abortion is wrong for example and then not be willing to do the same for the writer.
There are some interesting ideas on the link I posted.
Must really suck to be humanist in high school, eh? And who is the writer? Irvine Welsh? Barbara Cartland? Cuz, you know, that’s gonna make a difference. As a humanist, for example, I’d expect great kudos and even laurels, for helping old Barbara shuffle off this mortal coil.
[quote=“heimuoshu”]You are knocked unconscious and kidnapped. When you wake you find your circulatory system is plugged into the body of a sickly writer. The police have apprehended the kidnappers. They were followers of the writer who were trying to keep him alive. You are now free to go but you are told that if you unplug yourself, the writer will die. Only if you remain hooked up to the writer for many months does the writer have any chance of survival.
[quote=“antarcticbeech”][quote=“heimuoshu”]You are knocked unconscious and kidnapped. When you wake you find your circulatory system is plugged into the body of a sickly writer. The police have apprehended the kidnappers. They were followers of the writer who were trying to keep him alive. You are now free to go but you are told that if you unplug yourself, the writer will die. Only if you remain hooked up to the writer for many months does the writer have any chance of survival.
[quote=“the chief”][quote=“antarcticbeech”][quote=“heimuoshu”]You are knocked unconscious and kidnapped. When you wake you find your circulatory system is plugged into the body of a sickly writer. The police have apprehended the kidnappers. They were followers of the writer who were trying to keep him alive. You are now free to go but you are told that if you unplug yourself, the writer will die. Only if you remain hooked up to the writer for many months does the writer have any chance of survival.
What do you do?.[/quote]
I would ask to see his oeuvre.[/quote]
I love it when you talk dirty[/quote]
:aiyo:
Ok, let me rephrase that. I would ask to examine his magnum opus.