But that's what the explanation was about, that the newborn in that state does not experience as much pain as you imagine it does. There's no awareness there yet and it's awareness that makes you project through your imagination that a newborn is going through some untold levels of suffering. It really is not.Goodspeed wrote: ↑20 May 2023, 11:57What? The parents are quite aware and had to watch their newborn struggle to live and then die. That's why it's a sad story.Dolan wrote: ↑20 May 2023, 09:11You're projecting a level of existential anguish that only becomes available once you develop full awareness, which the newborn lacks.fightinfrenchman wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 22:34This was incredibly difficult to read
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/i ... h-dorbert/
Awareness is a pain amplifier. The newborn is still a human blueprint reacting on autopilot
Maybe you want to say that the parents are suffering for losing the newborn, but well, if she aborted him, then the situation would have been better?
Is that what you guys are trying to argue that this situation was so terrible because the foetus could not be aborted, so the parents had to go through seeing a nonviable foetus getting born?
Again, how is seeing this worse than seeing a foetus getting plugged out of the mother's uterus and thrown in a bowl, while maybe still twitching a bit.