Hey Rasheed,
RASHEED
> If a terminally ill patient wants to die, isn't it a low quality pattern
to
> keep him alive against his will?
RICK
Not from Intellect's point of view...
RASHEED
It brings to mind the beautiful, gritty
> book/movie "Bringing Out the Dead." A man in a coma was being kept alive
> through defibrillations . . . this man had no real hope for survival, he
was
> not a source of thought, so by letting him a die we are not in essence
losing
> a source of thought.
RICK
This is different though. If the man is no longer a source of thought
anyway than there's nothing wrong with letting him die (of course, this
presumes confidence in the judgment that he would never recover and resume
being a source of Intellect).
RASHEED
> I hadn't thought about this during my first death penalty debate, but
isn't
> it possible to separate Quality sources of thought from non-Quality ones?
RICK
This point was just made by Zach. My most recent reply to him explains why
this sort of differentiation is impossible from an MOQ standpoint (choosing
which Intellectual patterns are high-Q and which aren't is the exclusive
providence of the Intellectual level. Society cannot make these kind of
judgments).
RASHEED
> Ted Bundy may be a source of thought, but not a substantial one and
certainly
> not one that will contribute to the intellectual level of society.
RICK
Nobody knows what ideas will contribute to Intellectual development.
Perhaps Ted Bundy would have written a book the produced insightful and
important Intellectual contributions on the subject of serial killers,
mental illness... etc. If we let him live and he doesn't produce anything,
no big loss. But if we kill him and he would have produced something....
that could be a big loss.
RASHEED
Maybe it all depends upon whether or not hundreds of years
> later people will look back and say that Ted Bundy would have strengthened
> our society if he would have been allowed to live.
RICK
Exactly!!! You've got it now.
it's all good,
rick
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