On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:44:10PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
Some people simpy love these machines, and it is their right to
do so.
Surely, I would not question anyone's right to love.
This is going to sound cold-hearted and off-topic, but I'm curious:
Since this sounds so much analagous to the elderly-and-slowly-dying
that I have known (increasingly absurd techniques to prolong
lifespan, deemed by all worth it because of the love factor), and
I've first-hand experience how that turns out (enormous drain of
resources followed by death anyway), could any who have experience
with the "euthanasia" type-of-experience describe if it was worth it?
On balance, is it better to kill it anyway?
No one has ever said so, which is why these sorts of things *always*
happen.