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sneaky bunny said:
yes, but statistically survival under a certain weight is rare.



I'm not sure I see what that has to do with anything. Statistically your chances of surviving Aids are low, should we just kill anyone who contracts it because they might not live?

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winged creature said:
Sure developed enough to born??? I think not they would not survive. Only medical technology allows them to survive and thats not 100%.



No, not "only". Some would die, yes, perhaps even a lot, but not all.

And again, this is a silly argument, because the fact is that they're alive. They breathe, they begin to think, they feel pain. Technology helps, of course, but penalizing them for that is absurd. Could they die? Sure! Anyone of us could die at any moment, even you! That doesn't give me the right to kill you, since I'd only be delaying the inevitable.

Should Siamese Twins be killed because, technically, they're not "fully developed"? What about Down Syndrome cases? What about Schizophrenics that can't cope without taking relaxing drugs? They need technology to survive, too, most of the time.

I'm tempted to say that this is "survival of the fittest" to the extreme, but it's not really even that, because by your standards, nobody would be fit enough. Even Sparta would have found this line of thinking strange.

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sneaky bunny said:
well, unless your working at the hand of god the chances are very minimual. and at that point why let it suffer. if you have to plug it into things and let it sit in a veggie state not being able to do or understand a thing.



Now we're crossing over into entirely different territory. Euthanasia is a seperate matter. You're talking about not even letting it get to the point of pulling the plug, you're not even giving them that chance.

MisterJLA is RACKing awesome.