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Comment author: Multiheaded 02 January 2012 10:35:07AM 0 points [-]

We could legislate infanticide needs to be done by professionals away from the eyes of parents and other onlookers to avoid psychological damage.

For legal reasons, there'd just have to be a clear procedure where parents would take or refuse the decision, probably after being informed of the baby's overall condition and potential in the presence of a witness. I can't imagine how it could be realistically practiced without one. Such a procedure could ironically wind up more psychologically damaging than, say, simply distracting one's parental instinct with something like intoxication and personally abandoning/suffocating/poisoning the baby.

Also forbid media depicting it except for educational purposes.

Potential for tension and cognitive dissonance. Few things in our culture are censored this way, not even executions and torture. Would feel unusually hypocritical.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 January 2012 10:41:14AM *  6 points [-]

For legal reasons, there'd just have to be a clear procedure where parents would take or refuse the decision, probably after being informed of the baby's overall condition and potential in the presence of a witness. I can't imagine how it could be realistically practiced without one.

Humans are pretty ok with making cold decisions in the abstract that they could never carry out themselves due to physical revulsion and/or emotional trauma.

The number of people that would sign a death order is greater than the number of people that would kill someone else personally.

Potential for tension and cognitive dissonance. Few things in our culture are censored this way, not even executions and torture.

Does society feel conflicted bothered that child pornography is censored? We can even extend existing child pornography laws with a few good judicial decisions to cover this.

Would feel unusually hypocritical.

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Comment author: wedrifid 02 January 2012 10:54:54AM 1 point [-]

Does society feel conflicted bothered that child pornography is censored? We can even extend existing child pornography laws with a few good judicial decisions to cover this.

Good point. If they aren't even people...

Comment author: [deleted] 02 January 2012 11:01:40AM 2 points [-]

In my own country pornography involving animals is illegal. It shows no signs of being legalized soon. And I live in a pretty liberal central European first world country.

Comment author: Multiheaded 02 January 2012 11:29:25AM 0 points [-]

I live in Russia and here the legal status of all pornography is murky but no law de facto prosecutes anything but production and distribution of child porn, and simple possession of child porn is not illegal. There's nothing about animals, violence, or such.

Comment author: Multiheaded 02 January 2012 10:46:36AM *  1 point [-]

The number of people that would sign a death order is greater than the number of people that would kill someone else personally.

Much greater? I think that people signing death orders for criminals could generally execute those criminals themselves if forced to choose between that and the criminal staying alive.

Does society feel conflicted bothered that child pornography is censored?

4chan could be an argument that it's beginning to feel so :) Society just hasn't thought it through yet.

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