[Vision2020] Rights to kill

[Robert Dickow]

Hi all,

 

This is sort of a new thread. Maybe. Anyway, let's try a little thought
experiment. Suppose, at some time in the not-too-distant future, we have the
technology to hook up an adult to a woman via a kind of mechanical placenta.
Ok, so let's say I decide to work out a deal with a local female that I
contact via Cupid.com and arrange to hook myself up to her body via the new
apparatus. After all, I live alone, and I'm tired of fixing myself TV
Dinners, and I'm a lousy cook, and I want to simply have a little vacation
and be nourished through my new (and rather expensive) MicroSoft Placenta XT
Version 2.3. The woman agrees, and we undergo the simple but delicate
procedure to install the artificial placenta and wire it up to my belly
button. Six weeks later, she decides she has changed her mind and doesn't
like me parasitizing off her, despite the princely weekly deductions from my
PayPal account that we agreed would be fair exchange for the deal. Of
course, I'm quite happy with my arrangement, and I refuse to detach the
device, which of course is under my control, protected as it is with a
secure 164-bit Ryndael Encrypted password system (Patent Pend). The
authorities can't forceably detach me from the device without killing me,
and such action might kill my host as well (although this only happens in a
small percentage of cases). 

 

Now, a question: Does the woman have the right to arrange to have me
detached, thereby killing me?

 

If yes, could the detachment service costs by Federally funded?

 

P.S. Microsoft eventually develops a male version of the placenta, so that
males can serve as hosts as well.

 

Bob Dickow, troublemaker

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