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title: Consent of the Dead
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date: '2011-12-30'
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- antinatalism
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- consent
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- doctor deontology
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- guys i'm totally going with this doctor deontology thing
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- thougt experiment
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techne: :done
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episteme: :speculation
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slug: 2011/12/30/consent-of-the-dead/
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<a href="http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2011/01/pareto-kaldor-hicks-and-deserving.html">Sister Y observes</a>:
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<blockquote>A market or social system may provide for individual choice in any given transaction, but a participant cannot decide <em>whether to be part of a market economy</em>. It's not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down">consent all the way down</a>, you might say.</blockquote>
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The lack of consent is the strongest case for the immorality of bringing someone into existence, I think. Morality must be grounded in contracts (among other things, perhaps) and without consent, you have no Rule of Law, but tyranny. It might be a super-happy tyranny of fun, though. Evil has its upsides.
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Assuming the necessity of consent, can there ever be a moral way to bring someone into existence? Maybe. Consider this simple thought experiment.
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<img class="aligncenter" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Detective_Comics_818_2nd_print_coverart.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="206" />
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The evil Doctor Deontology is trying to assemble his crew of supervillains. He has recently gotten his hands on a cryogenically frozen Two-Face and now considers reviving him. He knows that Two-Face always makes his important decisions by flipping a coin. Fortunately for him, Doctor Deontology also obtained this coin, and deontologist that he is, he wants Two-Face's consent first before he goes through with the procedure.
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So he thinks, if Two-Face were already alive, he would simply flip this coin to answer my question. There is nothing special about *him* doing the flipping, so *I* can just flip the coin in his stead. So he does, the coin comes up heads and Doctor Deontology revives Two-Face after all.
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Did he do so with Two-Face's consent?
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