Swimmer963 comments on Circular Altruism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 21 August 2013 02:06:06AM 1 point [-]

Or allowing someone to go long enough without air that they cannot be resuscitated.

This is less of a single qualitative distinction than you would think, given the various degrees of neurological damage that can make a person more or less the same person that they were before.

Comment author: Voltairina 21 August 2013 03:34:08AM 0 points [-]

Good point... you are right about that. It would be more of a matter of degrees of personhood, especially if you had advanced medical technologies available such as neural implants.