If such a child existed, their parent(s) would have the right to act on behalf of the child and it would, therefore, be “permissible” for them to kill that child. — Ferzeo
I am not saying that people never have the right to dignity in death, but that the infringement of their dignity in life does not qualify them to prematurely take their right to dignity in death. — Ferzeo
I am not saying that people never have the right to dignity in death, but that the infringement of their dignity in life does not qualify them to prematurely take their right to dignity in death. — Ferzeo
The argument went like this — Ferzeo
That shouldn't be controversial. While parents make many decisions for their children, we do not allow them to decide to give their child body modifications such as putting horns in their head or tattooing something over their entire skull/face/neck. So there are already some things that people are allowed to decide for themselves, as consenting adults, that we do not allow parents to decide for their children. — Terrapin Station
No, was just referring to the gender-identification itself. — Pantagruel
physician-assisted suicide — Ferzeo
A child born with a mental deficiency that would render them without the capacity to make major life decisions as well as deprive them of what could be reasonably called common dignities would meet the qualifications for the first and second premises of this argument. — Ferzeo
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