Poll: Your child is born without a brain. Would you raise it regardless?

[Carlos Storm]

Child born without a brain? oh god he'll wear "Swag" T-shirts and spray copious ammounts of Axe body spray on! har har har

in all seriousness though, if the child can't process even the most basic things like sight and sound, the kindest thing to do would be to kill it, now if I had a child like that, whether or not I could bring myself to do it is another matter entirely(and a bridge I hope to never cross), but I would recognize what is probably the best path.

 

[proctorninja2]

I agree with the majority in killing it, when seeing the video i just kept thinking put the thing out of its misery, it will never be human and is therefore subject to Darwin's laws

 

[Risingblade]

Only made it 30 seconds in before I got too depressed to keep going.

 

[afroebob]

I wouldn't even call it killing him. I think its more allowing him to die. Whatever there is after this has to be better than the cards he has been dealt here and I couldn't let a child suffer like that. For him there is no hope, no joy, no love. It just wouldn't be right.

 

[Lunar Templar]

o.0

how the hell does that even happen.

catchpa: out of toner

>.> clearly the catchpa is indifferent to this question

 

[Skops]

Well "kill it" is rather blunt. "Laying it to rest" is probably better..

No, I wouldn't keep it. It has no brain, no possible future. It doesn't see, think, hear, or possibly even feel. It is void of all that makes someone human. It's just better to put it down.. And try again!

 

[Daverson]

I don't want to sound inhumane... but only a brain stem? That's not a person. That's a spare-parts kit.

 

[w9496]

I would have them put down(I can't think of a nice way to say it).

Even if the kid lives past 5 for some miraculous reason, their quality of life would be just terrible. I don't think they could go to school, interact with others, or just be a person.

 

[White-Death]

Donate it to science,obviously.Lets cut it open and see what makes it tick,I say.Also,way too many people using the OP article to force their silly religious stuff,saddening really.

 

[VanTesla]

What would you do?

Sorry, but I believe if you have no brain function, then you are dead already... You are technically a living corpse that only can function through medical technology and have no ability to do anything, but shit and waste peoples time... I sound cruel and it saddens me to think such a way, but it is the truth and people have to accept it and move on.

 

[VanTesla]

The more I think of it I feel it is more inhumane to keep such a thing alive if you can call it such for the only thing truly alive is it's heart and organs which is not living... If this was a dog or cat no one would give a second thought to put it down for it is the humane thing to do so why is this different for a human?

 

[VanTesla]

I think the brain is less important than people think it is. That is to say, it's incredibly important and probably essential, but it's not the one thing that "makes us human" like people are saying. You only have to look at the baby to see that. The organs do a lot of the work on their own without the need of the brain, which is quite amazing when you think about it.

I disagree for all that is left with no brain is not human but a living vegetable that has more in common with a immobile non-threatening zombie than a human being... A human without a functioning brain, a conscious, and emotion is not a human, but a child that never lived in the first place and was cheated out of having a true life.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

I think the brain is less important than people think it is. That is to say, it's incredibly important and probably essential, but it's not the one thing that "makes us human" like people are saying. You only have to look at the baby to see that. The organs do a lot of the work on their own without the need of the brain, which is quite amazing when you think about it.

It has a brain stem which controls all of those functions. Without a brain, you, in the extent that you seem to be talking about it, are nothing. The rest of your body is essentially a vessel for your brain to control.

I'm not my heart too? My liver? My arms and legs? Those things are working in the baby, albeit not optimally without the brain. It's absurd to say those parts of the body are 'nothing'.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Seeing as the kid would already be a living dead, the answer is easy. Doesn't make it any less hard though.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

I think the brain is less important than people think it is. That is to say, it's incredibly important and probably essential, but it's not the one thing that "makes us human" like people are saying. You only have to look at the baby to see that. The organs do a lot of the work on their own without the need of the brain, which is quite amazing when you think about it.

I disagree for all that is left with no brain is not human but a living vegetable that has more in common with a immobile non-threatening zombie than a human being... A human without a functioning brain, a conscious, and emotion is not a human, but a child that never lived in the first place and was cheated out of having a true life.

Would you call a lot of animals 'living vegetables' too? Bugs and beetles?

Besides, what you call 'true life' is overrated. The emergence of human consciousness and language were aberrations in the history of mankind, on the same scale as maladaptive mutations in the Darwinian sense, allowing us to divide up our world and break up the natural order.

 

[Supertegwyn]

I would blow it's brains out.

Oh wait, no I wouldn't. I would abort it (or kill it after it was born), but I would not raise it.