Auralia wrote:The New California Republic wrote:Not at all. Most, if not all, of those cases have the potential for future sapience and sentience. That is the crucial difference. In the case of Alfie Evans, that potential is completely lacking.
How do you know that this potential in Alfie is "completely lacking"? Because there is no known cure for Alfie's condition? How is it that a person's status as a human being is a function of the state of medical science at any given time?
His brain doesn't exist anymore. It's been destroyed by his illness.
Describe to me how you recover from that.