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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Now, a question: Does the woman have the right to arrange to
have me detached, thereby killing me?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>If yes, could the detachment service costs by Federally
funded?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>P.S. Microsoft eventually develops a male version of the
placenta, so that males can serve as hosts as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Bob Dickow, troublemaker<o:p></o:p></p>
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