Georgia59
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Thought Experiment #2 - Person-seeds
Posted: 12-04-07 22:35pm
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So we're now in a parallel universe where
humans reproduce like plants. There is a
person-seed season where the person seed
plants let the seeds go and they fly
through the air looking for things to
catch on to. During this season, if you
want a baby, you normally wash your house
thoroughly paying special attention to any
soft porous surfaces and making sure
everything is clean and safe. You then
open all your windows and let the seeds
blow into the house, hoping that one will
settle into your couch's throw and start
to grow into a baby.
However, your neighbors are terrible, lazy
people. They didn't even realize it was
person-seed season, and didn't pay
attention at all to the careful cleaning
of their home or disinfecting of their
couch's throw. In fact, they've had
parties every weekend and their house is
overwrought with beer bottles and paper
plates. They left their windows open and a
person-seed got in, and began to grow, in
this terrible, irresponsible environment.
Do your neighbors have a right to dig up
and throw away that person-seed? What
should happen to it/them?
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Georgia59
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Posted: 12-04-07 22:42pm
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Oh btw- I didn't come up with this one
either, it was Judith something or
another, another well known argument from
an article I read for a class.
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Posted: 12-04-07 22:53pm
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Hmn... Well, if the party-house wasn't
planning on getting any seeds and
accidentally got one, I do feel they have
the right to dig it up. It's a little sad,
but if they aren't ready for a baby, and
if they do not have a proper home, and if
the seed is potentially harmed due to the
environment, then I can't see how it's
responsible for them to raise that baby. I
would call it very irresponsible!
They should have kept their windows closed
or put up screens perhaps; but accidents
happen.
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Posted: 12-04-07 22:59pm
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I used to live in a house like that.
Luckily, no person seeds arrived until I
had a chance to clean up the place. If
they had, I most certainly would have dug
them up and thrown them into the compost
heap.
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Posted: 12-05-07 11:20am
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Could you just donte th ouch on freecycle
to someone who want one?
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Posted: 12-05-07 11:36am
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Well, I didn't want it growing in my
filthy house that whole time. I wouldn't
have wanted it to get dirty, or broken or
something. Nobody wants a broken baby.
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Georgia59
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Posted: 12-05-07 13:19pm
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Right- and unless they dig up the person
seed right away, it has to stay there (in
the dumpy party house) the whole season
until it turns into a baby. You can't dig
it up and transplant it.
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Posted: 12-05-07 16:43pm
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the get all their seeds they dont need and
give it to someone who wants one
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Posted: 12-05-07 16:46pm
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That's a fine idea, but if the people
aren't capable of cleaning house and
keeping it clean for 40 weeks, they will
have a damaged person to give to others.
Believe it or not, sometimes even if a
person WANTS to clean house and keep it
that way, they forget to take out the
garbage and after a while the whole house
begins to stink and become dirty.
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Posted: 12-05-07 17:06pm
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| SmartyShirt
wrote: | | the get all their seeds they
dont need and give it to someone who wants
one |
That is a whole lot of gardening to do for
nothing.
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Posted: 12-05-07 17:41pm
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but its ok becuz we dont want the seeds to
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die
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Posted: 12-05-07 18:14pm
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Jesus, please speak legible english.
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Posted: 12-06-07 13:53pm
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| SmartyShirt
wrote: | | the get all their seeds they
dont need and give it to someone who wants
one |
People do this in IVF clinics with
embryos. They donate their extra embryos
to people who want to adopt them.
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Posted: 12-06-07 15:42pm
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thats bertter than ABORTING them
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Posted: 12-06-07 17:16pm
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But how do you know that?
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Georgia59
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Posted: 12-06-07 18:28pm
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It's true that they were irresponsible-
but does it really make sense to punish
people by making them take care of a baby?
(In utero or out)
And of course, what about the people who
did the responsible thing and closed their
house up to protect against the seeds but
one got in through a hole in the screen?
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Posted: 12-06-07 18:31pm
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Judith Thompson
I think was the woman who wrote these
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Posted: 12-06-07 18:48pm
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| SmartyShirt
wrote: | | thats bertter than ABORTING
them |
??? you can't abort something that hasn't
implanted and become a pregnancy. I'd have
thought that was obvious.
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