A judge has granted a mother's request to have someone harvest sperm from her dead son's body, so she can have the option of carrying out his wish to have children.
Nikolas Colton Evans, 21, died Sunday at a hospital after being punched and falling outside an Austin bar March 27.
His mother, Marissa Evans, told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper that he wanted to have three sons someday and had even picked out their names: Hunter, Tod and Van.
"I want him to live on. I want to keep a piece of him," she told the newspaper.
By the way, know what? I said the whole "risk to being reduced to pets" was an idle question, but if you want me to play at this game, I will...
Don't want to hijack this thread in a Randian apologia direction, especially since I do find her elitism more than a bit off-putting (though I do...
>If we can't define intelligence then the project of attempting to create it will always be incoheren
No, we can't define exactly...
Have you actually read anything Rand ever wrote? Or did you get that idea purely from other people who also haven't read anything Rand ever wrote...